Explore the connection between violent TV and video games and youth violence and mass killings.

Explore the connection between violent TV and video games and youth violence and mass killings. Then, create appropriate legislation to combat the problem. There have been numerous studies that show a direct relationship between violent video games/violent television and violent behavior. One study, which tracked 700 children for 17 years, found that young people watching one to three hours of television daily were about four times more likely to commit violent and aggressive acts later in life than those who watched less than an hour of TV a day. There have been studies that have shown similar results in relation to violent video games. As far back as 2001, a meta-analysis of numerous studies showed a direct relationship between violent video games and violent/aggressive behavio