TV Violence: Impossible To Get Rid of Violence on Television Tear gas flushes a gunman out of a house where he had been held up. He comes out shooting, then falls in a hail of bullets from the S.W.A.T team. A film of the shoot-out and removal of the gunman's body appear on the on the evening news. Is this what Americans want to watch, or should it be censored out of the news? Many people think it should be banned. But would that be breaking the first amendment? I believe that TV doesn't control what people do, people control what people do. There was violence before TV was invented, but