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Today a gunman, upset about his mother’s health condition, wounded a doctor and then killed his mother and himself. The shootings took place at Johns Hopkins hospital.
As soon as I heard that the shooter (36) the doctor because of his mother’s health condition, I immediately thought of the (37) season finale of Grey’s Anatomy. In those two episodes, a man goes on a shooting rampage at the hospital, looking for the doctor who he felt killed his wife. The episodes had several shootings, (38) some at close-range.
While audience demographics (39) would mostly likely tell us that the shooter probably wasn’t a (40) viewer of Grey’s Anatomy, the similarities made me wonder once again about the (41) of television violence on committing violent acts. You can’t avoid violent programs just by (42) channels—even the commercials have violence. One commercial in particular aired during one of the UF Gator football games. It was a commercial for a TV movie, and it (43) of a shadowy figure standing in a doorway and a little girl sitting up and saying in a shaky, terrified voice, "Daddy" Mind you, there were children watching the football game during this time, and (44) .
Viewing of television violence has been correlated with an increase in violent behavior and aggression in young viewers. In addition, (45) . It’s time we took a tough look at how the violence that we view on television, on purpose and inadvertently, (46) .