Debates have raged since at least the 1980s about violence in movies and on television, as well as in video games. One side argues that the violence is "entertainment," while another side says it is teaching teenagers, and younger children, that violence is an acceptable way of life, but also a way of life that’s normal.
In the 1990s, America — and the world — watched live as police attempted to rescue students, teachers, and staff from a Colorado high school as two students opened fire in the school. In the end, the two students committed suicide rather than go head-to-head in a shootout with police, risk getting shot by snipers from the local SWAT team, or going on trial for the violent and unprovoked attack on fellow students. That shooting seemingly helped numb teens for more than a decade to the value of human life.
Just as the folks in Baytown, Texas about the alleged actions of a 14-year-old student at the town’s Cedar Bayou Junior High who allegedly murdered her newborn infant son immediately after birth, according to police reports. She allegedly killed her newborn son by stuffing toilet paper in her infant son’s throat after he had cried his first — and what would be his last — cries in life, according to police and media reports. After allegedly stuffing her newborn son’s mouth with toilet paper, the unidentified eight-grader then allegedly submerged her baby boy in the toilet, then flushed the toilet, drowning him, according to Baytown Police Lt. Eric Freed, who was quoted in several media outlets as saying.
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