Some completely honest and well intended questions.

[PoliticalBiker]

12. I think you have hit on a very important...

... part of the problem.
Our society has become so de-sensitized with violence that the step from movie or video game to real-life is almost non-existant.
I don't go to horror movies. Blood, guts and gore get worse for each movie or video game that comes out tries to out-gore and out-graphic the next. Why? Money. Society accepts these *norms* because of capitalism. If money can be made, laws will allow it and society will accept it... sometimes unwillingly, but money rules.
That paradigm has to change. Money cannot be the ruling or deciding factor. The influence of money is so engrained in our society that it will take a very courageous congress to change that, but it must be done... in all facets of our society. Only then will reason rule and conscience guide our growth as a people