Put your hands up if you are blaming knife crime on the media?

Over the few years in which knife crime has increased within the young community, many people have commented on what they thought was the reason for the recent epidemic. With films, music and games being the most common.

Actor, Sir Richard Attenborough, believes it is the American gangster films that are to blame due to knives seeming normal making viewers desensitised to real life crime as the graphic images from on screen are so frequent. He added that modern cinema has created a culture where teenagers and young adults are no longer shocked by weapons. Thirty years ago, a weapon was pulled out during a film and the audience would gasp in a state of shock, nowadays, the audience wouldn't have any reaction as they see it as normal. This cinema experience reflects onto reality as knives aren't seen as a huge thing when teenagers carry them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1038361/Violent-movies-blame-knife-crime-wave-blasts-Sir-Richard-Attenborough.html

London (awesome guy) Mayor Of London blames the video games that this generation of young people favour. His aim is to show young people that the characters in video games aren't their idols and to push positive idols onto them so their behaviour reflects their idol.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/30932/Violent-games-encourage-knife-crime-says-Boris-Johnson