"The world is too much with us early and soon" wrote the poet William Wordsworth. Substitute "violence" for "world" and there you have it.

The introduction to violence begins early, stories told to small children, nursery rhymes, folklore, fairy tales, and cartoons,.

Children are presented with all sorts of images in books and on television which in their inexperience they consider to be real. The cartoon character is injured, yet he gets up and walks away. Therefore it is permissible to do the same thing to a friend or companion since it doesn't hurt.

The same premise exists in adult television viewing. The villain may be killed or injured as well as the hero in one story, but you will meet him again in another brawl. There is either a car chase or pursuit on horseback, a confrontation.

Watch the "prairie schooners" circle in preparation against Indian attack. See men killed on both sides. See the riders jerk and pull on the horses' reins to bring them both down. Or come upon a homestead burned to the ground, its inhabitants violated by renegade white men.

Move to the modern world where arguments are settled with fist fights, guns or karate on the wide screen and women are mistreated by men.

What we are looking at on television is not real. It is for our "entertainment," actors following a script. Yet there are those so involved in the action movies that the involvement carries over into the real world, appearing in schools and in the home.

Violence, we agree, is a part of human nature but does it have to be presented to us daily? Enough is enough!