Schoolchildren fighting on Camera

We just don't complain enough.
Going back to my youth, I never believed Roy Rogers actually killed rustlers, or that red Indians actually scalped the cavalry, being in 'black & white' it was never that graphic enough for me to wince at the potential bloodbath and fortuantely I did see it as fantasy. The fact is however, those 45cal. handguns don't just put a tiny hole in an arm in delayed action – the lead bullet removes the whole arm before the blink of the eye and the recoil of the gun, the real injuries would be appalling to the onlooker.
The number of violent movies and TV series has anaesthetised all onlookers and especially the people who mimic and wallow in the depicted gang culture. 'Miami Vice' is fiction guys!!! It doesn't happen on the streets of Miami as frequently as the programme shows and 'cool' heroes wearing white flannel baggies don't fire big silver automatics whilst rolling over hoods of cars – it's pretend you idiots!!!! I know I have lived there.
Don't get me going about 'The Americans'!!!! with their twisted morality [TV can show gross death but not the naked bum???] The obscene US Multi-Billionaires flaunt their wealth whilst the poor live with envy and resentment. How much intelligence does a $10,000,000 p.a footballer need to kick a bag of air into a net yet can't assemble enough words to be understood??
We don't complain enough because we think we are one in a few million who just can't be heard. The little old lady isn't going to get up and protest and the shocked housewife isn't going to be allowed to express her dismay and be taken seriously – it's just not British. This is why crime gains momentum, everyday thieves are part of the scenery and the stuff on the TV and in the news makes it so.
We don't complain when computer games allow children to atomise a policeman, blast a soldier or squash a granny under a TWOK car. This regularizing of death, mutilation and disfigurement of another human being cannot be reversed, the shock value of death is diluted with each vision.
We don't complain when TV depicts a death as entertainment.
[Jekyl. Last episode, commanding officer breaks squady's neck in a demonstration, the death is dismissed] OK the series is fiction and we can obviously see the difference between a 'monster' killing a human - but the cold blood killing of a comrade in arms should not be simply dismissed.
[Torchwood. I'm sure 'Capt. Jack' fires his handgun more than fantasies need]
So now we have children fighting on camera.....mob anaesthesia.