t's violent influence it is not justifiable and it is especially not justifiable when violent entertainment creates real life victims.Is censorship the answer to the problem of violent entertainment? Should we tell people what they can or can't read or watch? The simple answer to this question is no, we can't censor violent entertainment. The First Amendment clearly states that: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise therof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The instinct to censor is the tragic flaw of utopian minds. "Our first job," said Plato in his classic attack on the democratic system , "is to oversee the work of the story writers, and to accept any good stories they write, but reject the others" (Klavan 96). If the government ever did censor violent entertainment who knows where they would stop, or even if they would. Perhaps they would try to censor violent speech or try to censor the speech of those who disagreed with the actions of the government. The simple message is don't promote censorship, because it could easily get out of hand, and as the old saying goes "the road to hell is paved with good intentions." There are then only two ways to get rid of the violent entertainment in our lives: we could shame those who make the violent movies, television shows, books, and plays, into having a social conscience, making them be less prone to creating violent entertainment; or we could simply solve the problem ourselves, with a push of a button, or the turn of a page.Works CitedLamson, Susan R. "TV Violence: Does it cause real-life mayhem?", American Rifleman July 1993: 32.Leone, Bruno. Youth Violence. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1992....
