We KNOW, with certainty, that long term exposure to violence in media breeds reduced empathy, increased rates of depression, and measurable increases across populations in actual violence.
Why the FUCK is Obama spending money on anti-smoking campaigns? Yes, I know he plans to have everybody on the payroll, uh, welfare role, no, on his SUPREMELY AWESOME free healthcare plan.
But surely people already know cigarettes increase cancer and heart disease rates? What is NOT generally known is what social science has found out about growing up with violence.
Case in point: it is a terrible tragedy that a six year old was killed at the Batman movie. But why was she there in the first place? I see people taking kids too young to talk to PG-13 movies. This is ludicrous.