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I am wondering whether the exposure to violence(media or real world) causes people to be more desensitized to violence in the real world. I think it does, and the reason being is when first movies came out everyone who saw the first western movie thought they were being shot at and freaked out ducking, hiding or running out of the theater. Those were grown people. When I was 6 I used to be scared of violent movies. My parents would never let me watch them but occasionally I would see a a person get shot or killed.
Is the reason that children are scared of violent movies because they haven't been exposed to much violence? And as they grow up they slowly are exposed to violence through media so much so they are capable of seeing that movie that they once were incapable of watching?
What do you guys think? I am not saying the media makes people more violent, just that people become more used to the actions of violence around them because of the media.
