Would you be interested in placing a poster up that could help reduce violence in your area? You wouldn't be paid for it. You can see the poster on this site. You would have to download it yourself. If you or people you know haven't the capability to download it, you might contact your local library to see if they can download it. It might cost money to download it. Where I live, it costs a dime for each poster downloaded. The cost may be different at your library. If, after seeing the poster, you think it's a joke or a loser, keep in mind that when it was two weeks old the St. Paul and Oklahoma City libraries sent me emails claiming they had sent it to all their branch libraries for display on bulletin boards. Smaller libraries have also informed me they intend to display it. In addition to bulletin boards at libraries, grocery stores, laundromats, places of worship, and other institutions often have bulletin boards where the poster might be displayed. If you try to display it at your local library, they may insist you show it to them before you display it. Some libraries may not want to display it because they'll consider it too commercial. (Some places of worship may have this attitude too, about wanting to see it before displaying it. They may want to see the poster before it goes on their bulletin board. You may want to talk with the minister or whatever of any place of worship.)
So how will this poster reduce hitting violence? Note that the poster says it - One Punch Homicide - looks at 38 cases where people were killed with one punch and only one punch. With many who read that it will have the WOW effect. Wow, I didn't know it was so easy to kill people with a single punch. This could reduce hitting violence in three ways. First, some may decide to never throw a punch. Second, those in relationships where they're victims of violence may decide they need to get out of them. And third, some who are hitters may decide to quit hitting or cut back on their hitting because they may fear killing someone.
Also, I recently did an AI search asking if people who shoot guns at other people have been victims of violence more often than the general population, and if you guessed the answer for that was true, perhaps you should be a contestant on Jeopardy. Doesn't this mean reducing hitting violence might reduce gun violence too?
With the five interviews One Punch Homicide has with inmates
talking about the bleakness of prison life, it should also discourage teens and
others from committing crimes in general. It should be beneficial for
girls to watch too, because it may inspire many to get out of violent
relationships more quickly.
One
Punch Homicide
(87 Minute version.)
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This One Punch Homicide version has English subtitles for the deaf and those learning English as a second language.
Please consider buying your viewing of One Punch Homicide after you've seen it. (For those paying to see One Punch Homicide in the U.S., because you are making a purchase and not a donation, the transaction cannot be written off on your taxes.)
If you wish to use One Punch Homicide as a fund raiser, please contact Steve Kokette.
To hear a 12 and 1/2 minute interview with Steve Kokette, the maker of One Punch Homicide, on Crime and Punishment, a nationally syndicated Canadian radio program produced by CJOB in Winnipeg, click here.
To see the credits for One Punch Homicide, click here.
To see a list of over 200 one punch homicides, click here.
Other work by Steve Kokette, the maker of One Punch Homicide, click here.
Contact:
Steve Kokette
PO Box
2302
Madison, WI 53701
(608) 441-5277
signit2@hotmail.com