The shooting in Aurora, Colorado at the midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises illuminates, not just a gun control problem, but the huge number of films which have inspired copycat violence. Basketball Diaries and Natural Born Killers have been cited the most often in vicious killings, but other influences include: Child's Play, First Blood, Mortal Kombat, Fight Club, The Matrix, Gladiator, RoboCop2, Money Train, Scream, Magnum Force, Dirty Harry, Cruising, The Collector, The Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, and A Clockwork Orange, and the pattern dates as far back as 1949's White Heat.
Together with new information social scientists have discovered about the psychological effects of prolonged web use, and the way the new Batman movie may influence how people view the Occupy movement, our culture is sitting on a powder-keg.
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