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According to the Gerald Jones essay "Violent Media is Good for Kids", Violent media have positive effects on young people because it can help build their confidence and help conquer fears. Jones also believes it helps kids with emotional traps. Jones stated a lot of good examples. For example, He said his own son conquered his fear of climbing a tree at school after reading Tarzan comic books. On the contrary, He stated that violent media can also hurt kids as well as help them by promoting some kids to violence in real life. To sum up, Violent media can be good for a lot of kids, but for some kids promote kids to violence in real life.
In Today's News, They talk about the mass killing in Florida that killed 17 people and the suspect Nikolas Cruz motives in the school shooting. I don't think the media covers this event unfairly. It states that Cruz is an orphaned 19 year old who's parents died and family friends took him in after his parent's death. He had been kicked out of school for fighting his ex girlfriend's new boyfriend and came back armed and started shooting innocent people. Cruz was taken into custody without a fight about an hour after the shooting in a residential neighborhood about a mile away. He had multiple magazines of ammunition, authorities said. The Florida couple who took in school shooter Nikolas Cruz knew the depressed 19-year-old owned multiple guns, but felt safe knowing the weapons were under lock and key.
The media treats him as he is just a orphan child that didn't know any better and is going through a lot. However, I believe if that was a African american or any other ethnic race the media would have treated it as a criminal who shouldn't be in the free world and would have been charged and got the death penalty fast and in a hurry. Cruz has already turned himself in, so he is already set to take the consequences. In Contrast to Jones essay, Violent media played a bad role in this situation because Cruz must have thought this was some type of Call of Duty game or something. Overall, Violent media can have a positive or negative effect in young people; it just depends on what the young people use it as.


Sources Cited:

 Brocchetto, Marilia. “Nikolas Cruz's Guns Didn't Worry the Florida Shooter's Host Family.” CNN, Cable News Network, 20 Feb. 2018, www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/us/florida-shooting-nikolas-cruz-snead-family/index.html.

“Florida School Shooting Suspect Nikolas Cruz Charged.” Time, Time, time.com/5159944/nikolas-cruz-charged-17-counts-murder-florida-school-shooting/.



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