Whenever there’s an outbreak of violence, or worse a shooting, in our nation, there’s a push from a vocal minority to link it to mass media. Video games, television shows and feature films often are blamed for inspiring an active shooter, as when The Matrix was linked to shooting at a high school in Columbine, or how Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises was blamed for a movie-theater shooting because it happened to be on the screen when a gunman opened fire in Aurora, Colorado.
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