[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12127]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        VIOLENCE AMONG OUR YOUTH

  (Mr. EWING asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EWING. Madam Speaker, school violence and violence in society 
concerns all of us. What do we do about it? Well, we have tried gun 
control. We have insisted on parental control. We have suggested the 
schools could control more.
  I do not believe our young people are born violent. It can be 
learned. We have found that out in the culture of the Hitler Nazi 
regime where he taught his youth, or there may be other ways that we 
can learn violence.
  In America, we have allowed a culture of violence to promote it, 
besides guns, besides lack of parental control. What is that? It is our 
movies, our television, our video games.
  I would like to see more leadership in addressing the thing that our 
students spend more time with. Let us try strict liability with 
television, videos and movies.

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