When an Ohio five-year-old was found to have committed arson last week, his mother blamed Beavis and Butt-head, not the first product of pop culture to be accused of inspiring specific acts of violence:
Murder in the Heartland, TV movie ... shooting death in Canada, May 1993
MacGyver, TV series ... fatal homemade bomb in France, 1992
Stained Class, heavy-metal album by Judas Priest ... shotgun suicide/maiming in Reno, Nevada, 1985
Taxi Driver, movie ... John Hinckley's attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, 1981
The Deer Hunter, movie (after its airing on TV) ... deadly games of Russian roulette, 1981
Kojak, TV...
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