THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18: Violent imagery has driven Bermuda’s rising gun problem, according to newly appointed Attorney General Michael Scott.

Mr Scott spoke this morning at the International Association of Prosecutors Conference, at the Fairmont Southampton.

He outlined Bermuda’s rising gang problem and added: “What has happened of late, well many things have occurred not the least of which has been a syndrome of over gormandising on violent imagery which has created among our modern citizens a pervasive numbness to violence and its infliction often in internecine conflicts.

“In less than a decade the medium of music cable and TV images has achieved in our regions what the second amendment of the US constitution the right to bear arms took in a differing context centuries to accomplish.

“There are of course other contributing causes but as we meet together the icon of violence stalks our young adults and tragically our children’s minds daily beckoning them to be movie actors in their own violent episodes. Controlling the imagery needs to be examined as we plot solutions.”

For more on this see tomorrow’s Royal Gazette