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Grisham’s Gripe, Stone’s Reply In a suburb of Muskogee, Oklahoma, this morning started out just as any other morning should. School children woke up at the same time as always, got ready to go to school, and left their homes. While preparing for school, a thirteen-year-old takes his father’s nine millimeter handgun from his home. The boy walks into a school, and unloads the gun on his classmates for no reason, but …

…Grisham’s ideas of boycotting violent movies and filing lawsuits on filmmakers could bring on good results. Boycotting movies and suing filmmakers could definitely decrease the amount of violence depicted onscreen, but I do not believe that it could prevent weirdoes, who watch these movies, from doing stupid things. I believe as Stone does. It is a combination of events that would cause somebody to perform an act as outrageous as murder, not a movie.