We Are Training Our Kids to Kill by: Dave Grossman

In Dave Grossman's essay "We are training our kids to kill," he speaks about the effects of the media. According to Grossman violent movies and video games impact kids a lot and trains them to learn to kill. Dave Grossman expert in the field of killology explores his beliefs and shares his experiences. He informs us about how the military works and the tactics they use to train the soldiers to kill. Grossman makes a comparison between the training used there and the media because the media is also training kid to kill though at the moment kids do not know it. He explains how in several wars many of the soldiers did not want to kill and many times didn't because it is not natural to kill humans but instead that's why they are trained. Over the years the rates of deaths and crimes have risen not only in the wars but in several countries as well due to the media. It was proven that media is a cause for violence because there was a study where two countries were observed and compared the crime rates, both had the same ethnicity and stuff except one didn't have TVs which was the one that had less crime rates. Moreover Grossman explains the three tactics used for training to kill which is extremely similar to what the media prepares young kids do to. Hence, media highly plays a major role in kids life and if the kids continue to have access to the violent media there won't be a solution to fixing this problem.

At first i thought that this essay was boring because i didn't understand how it would relate to kids and video games but then i realized the big similarity they share. It was interesting to seed what the soldiers have to go trough in the military and the way they are trained to do such a terrible thing "kill". I don't understand if some soldiers don't want to kill then why do they joined or if they are forced to join then i think that is absolutely unfair. I do think video games and all other media train kids to kill and it's sad to think of how big this problem is and nothing is being done instead more and more violent video games are being released for kids to play with. Something should definitely be done about this situation to prevent crime rates and deaths to increase. It's scary to walk out and not know if you might be the next victim of a shooting just like the example of the man in the store. Violent media should be banned or somehow kids should not be allowed to watch it until a certain older age but I'd rather it be banned for good.