In the essay "We are Training Our Kids to Kill" Dave Grossman speaks of how the media has an affect on children. Grossman believes that violent video games and TV has an impact on children. Children are being train to kill. Grossman is an expert in the field of "killology". He travels sharing his experiences, training medical, law enforcement, and US military personnel about the realities of war. Grossman informs them the strategies the military use while they training them to kill. He also explains how the media uses similar tactics to train children to kill, even though children don't know they are being trained to kill. Grossman mentions how many people don't like killing others, which is why they train them to kill and try to show them to like killing others. Grossman believes that the media has a great influence on how children become violent, and that they are being trained to kill.
The essay "We are Training Our Kids to Kill" had a very strong argument about how media has a strong influence on children. At first i really didn't believe the violence had much influence on children. But reading Grossman's essay it made me change my mind. Video games that have guns are training children to aim and fire. I did not see any harm in that before, but the fact is that video games with such violence encourages children to be violent. Even though children are killing fake people on a video game, they enjoy killing them and may find it natural and not wrong. Media is encouraging violence and children are learning to be violent.
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