The influx of increased violence in the society today can be attributed to media violence, which has been on an increase in the last two decades. Recent mass shootings in Colorado in a Batman movie screening, Paris Bombings, and physical violence among children have a direct correlation to media violence. The scenes in these scenarios have been witnessed in movies before and people tend to pick such behaviors with more exposure to violence. Emmanuel Tanay, a clinical professor and a forensic psychiatrist in the University of Wayne State, pointed that violence has increased rapidly in the society reaching to dangerous proportions. Most of the films and video games being viewed contain some sought of violence in them, and this is believed to influence the development of human behavior. Although some people have attributed the increasing rate of violence to other factors beyond films and video games, a growing body of research have shown that exposure to fierce imagery is a risk factor. Various researches conducted on this subjected have revealed that too much exposure to violent film and video games significantly contributes to violent behavior among children and adults.
Statistics indicate that an average American watches close to 5 hours of films each day and 98% of these movies are viewed on traditional TV sets. Nearly two thirds of these films contain some sort of physical violence. Similarly, most self-involving children games in the world today contain violence. Logic has it that, anything that promotes an idea or an action is classified as propaganda. Today, what the society deems as entertainment has become propaganda of violence in the society. A gun manufacturer no longer needs to advertise his/her products because the entertainment industry will do it. Realistically, crime involving violence has been on a decline, but the public still believes that violence is on the rise in the society. Violent victimization has decreased by 40% over the last decade, while murder has decreased by almost half from 9.8 per 100,000 individuals in 1991 to nearly five by 2010 (Kaplan 1). It takes various forms in different set ups and not necessarily in crime. In contrast, propaganda has managed to influence people’s perception by making them feel less secure as crime seems to be rampant everywhere forcing them to buy guns for self-protection.