Littleton, Colorado; Springfield, Oregon; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Pearl, Mississippi. These previously unknown suburban cities will forever be etched in our minds. These cities are linked by a devastating factor: young students who shoot at their classmates and teachers. What drives these young people to "snap" and cause violent shootings? Although the events are too recent to fully understand their causes, we can try to understand what led to disastrous situations. The impact of television violence on youth behavior has been an issue for many years. Television stations and their managers tend to deny television's contribution to youth violence. In the following paragraphs I will use various examples to demonstrate the impact that television has had on youth violence. This will be accomplished by discussing problems associated with television viewing, identifying violence on television, describing the effects of television violence on young people, and revealing ways to reduce violence on television. This article explores these topics using multiple statistics, incorporating the opinions of several public officials and authors, and also through my own opinions. In 1939, at the Universal Exhibition, television entered our lives for the first time. In 1938, author E.B. White told Harpers Magazine: "I believe that television will be the proving ground of the modern world, and in this new opportunity to see beyond the reach of our vision, we will discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the peace general or of a saving splendor in the sky. We will stand or fall in front of the television, of this I am sure." (Murray, 1) EB White foresaw the problems associated with television when television first arrived, but I didn't... middle of paper... ww.aacap.org/publications/factsfam/violence.htmDeMoss , Jr . Robert G. Learn to Discern. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing Company, 1992. Goodwin, William. Adolescent Violence San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1998. Gore, Tipper. Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society: What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Children from Sex and Violence in the Media. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1987. Landau, Elaine. Adolescent violence. Englewood Cliffs, CO: Julian Messner, 1990.Margolis, Jeffrey A. Teen Crime Wave: A Growing Problem. Problems in the Focus series. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1997 Miller, Maryann. Address guns and violence in your schools and on your streets. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 1993.Murray, John P. Children and Television Violence. Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy, 1993. Volume 4, Number 3, pp 7-14