Columbine Censorship

“On April 20, 1999, two teens went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 13 people and wounding more than 20 others before turning their guns on themselves and committing suicide .” Disturbingly, the Columbine gunmen’s inspirations to commit this heinous crime have been linked to the American film known as The Matrix. There are several significant details shared between the Columbine massacre and this popular American film. Most notably, in both the film and the real-life massacre, two gunmen in uniformed black clothing walk casually into a highly populated area of innocent civilians and unleash a spray of bullets on unsuspecting citizens. Although an extreme and tragic example, the similarities between

Particularly, the negative images promoted by the media raise concerns regarding the degree to which media should be subjected to censorship . The use of profanity, violence, and negative imagery in all forms of popular media has become commonplace in today’s society. Such nonchalant promotion of said images in public media has negatively impacted the minds of people, and this carelessness could be linked to an increase in self-destructive behavior and violence. Consequently, there should be a stronger censorship of detrimental imagery in today’s media because the ideals expressed in the popular media influence audiences to make irresponsible choices, and millions of young people are influenced by the media of today’s society.
First, a stronger media censorship should be adopted because the ideals found in media are embedded in the listener’s and/or viewer’s mind, which results in them making irresponsible and negligent choices. Any thought, sound, or idea, whether it be relevant or not, that is received by the human brain is retained within the mind. Similarly, when the human brain is exposed to a movie, song, commercial, etc. that contains vulgarity and negative imagery, the message contained in the