Immunity to Violence

I just got home from seeing Pride and Glory. The movie was a film about cops gone bad, and it was definitely excessively violent. Sadly, I was immune to much of the violence in the film. There was still one thing that stuck in my mind because of its horrific nature. The thing that affected me the most was the sight of a dog being shot. Now, I am in no way an extreme animal lover. I have never had a dog as a pet, and truthfully I am often afraid of dogs. My reaction really surprised me. As I have thought about this more and more, I have realized that this scene has affected me so greatly because I have never seen a dog being shot before. In thousands of movies, I have seen human being after human being being shot, so this unfortunately did not affect me. There were many especially graphic scenes in the movie, yet the dog was left in my mind when I walked out of the theatre. I am not someone that plays violent video games or even watches a great amount of violence in movies and on television. I cannot imagine how much more immune some people may be. I think that my experience with this movie says something very sad about our culture.