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Who is to blame for the Colorado batman shoot out

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The Dark Knight Rises (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The shooting at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises will be blamed on many things. One reporter blamed it on violence in movies. Certainly, violence in movies, television, and video games has had a tremendous impact on society. More than 500,000 studies, capped by the latest Dartmouth University study, show that violence in the media influences susceptible youths to commit violence. That said, most people are not susceptible. Most are just desensitized or scared. Another reporter blamed it specifically on the Batman movies . Yet, The Dark Knight Rises is nowhere near as violent as the last Batman movie, and Batman himself tells Catwoman not to shoot to kill in The Dark Knight Rises. The message of The Dark Knight Rises is justice and self-sacrifice. The villains and the killers in the movie are the 'socialist left-wing Occupy Wall Street power to the people' villain Bane and his compatriots, who are clearly sho