Several legislators claim that the public finds many current movies so violent as to be morally offensive  However, these legislators have misrepresented public opinion  In a survey conducted by a movie industry guild, only 17 percent of respondents thought that movies are overly violent, and only 3 percent found any recent movie morally offensive
These low percentages are telling, because the respondents see far more current movies than does the average moviegoer
generalizes from a sample that is unlikely to be representative of public sentiment