ssociated with violence until recently.The current trend of school and workplace violence is due to the desensitization of theAmerican people through television, movies and even music. Movie and televisionproducers are businessmen, and they produce what sells, that usually being violence.With the American public watching such films, and loving them, the influence oneveryday life cannot be ignored.Statistical facts from other countries show the USA to be much more violent thanmost other industrialized countries. Last year, Paris suffered less than 25% of the violencethat occurred in Washington DC, and Paris is four times as large. The classic society thatis present in Europe does not have the same fetish with violence as is present in America.“Progressive” generations in the American society are in essence regressing; the termsGeneration X and the Me Generation have been coined and convey the selfishness that isevident in modern society. The Columbine High School violence spree is simply one ofthe recent acts of violence, but it illustrates how the country’s “troubled” youth arereacting to their surroundings. People are taking a more violent approach to try to solveproblems than ever before, and that is certainly not solving anything.The recent increase in job related violence can be blamed on the increased stressand desensitization of the average worker. This new approach to workplace problems isvery evident, recently in Hawaii and is so common that the term “going postal” has beencreated to describe workplace shootings. In the early years of our country, and in mostplaces around the world at a boss or a layoff might have been expressed through yellingor at worst, throwing a chair. The desensitization of the American worker has caused himto take a different approach in very recent times, the approach of violence expressed withthe abuse of guns.The issue of gun control is historically split be...
