There are those who would blame the Batman comic, the Batman movie, for inspiring the mass killing in Aurora, Colorado.
However, I grew up with comic books, I loved comic books, they helped me learn to read, I read every comic book I could get my hands on: Superman, Batman, The Green Lantern, Archie, the Classic comics, war comics. If it was a comic, I read it. Never once did they encourage me or inspire me to commit mass murder or, to commit a crime of any kind. I was on the side of the Super Heroes, fighting for justice.
Although, in some ways, I had a strange upbringing (and who doesn