The makers of influential and harmful materials defend their actions by stating that their creations are defended as free speech and therefore protected under the first amendment. Rockstar games, the company which created Grand Theft Auto, contend that ideas and concepts of their games, as well as the "purported psychological effects", are protected by the First Amendment (“Makers of…”). The game and video makers also point out that some studies, such as the research of Bensley and van Eenwyk that suggests no link between violent behavior and video games (pg. 1436). While they may have a legal defense, the right to “express” violent and suggestive images is incredibly harmful to impressionable children who might interpret the images they see as acceptable behavior and attempt to emulate the games they play and try to re-create the television shows and movies that they watch. Recreations such as a customized level of the popular videogame Doom, which Columbine High School shooter Dylan Harris created, which closely emulated the layout of the high school (Anderson and Bushman, pg. 353), or in a more recent case; when two young boys in Knoxville decided to randomly shoot at tractor-trailer rigs, the boys later told authorities that they wanted to emulate the video game Grand Theft Auto III(“Makers of…”).

In the past, when the role of games or movies in violence has been the central issue in lawsuits, the makers of g

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