The debate about the connection between media violence and violent behavior heats up whenever a particularly horrible crime is linked to a movie. In one case, for example, two teenagers went on a murder spree and blamed their actions on Oliver Stone’s movie Natural Born Killers. In another case, five young men seemingly imitated a scene from the movie The Money Train and killed a New York City subway toll clerk by setting him on fire. Movies, however, are not the only culprits. In 1996, Paladin Press, publisher of the how-to manual Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors, was sued by the family of a woman whose killer apparently followed a set of detailed instructions outlined in the book. The case was settled out of court, with Paladin agreeing to stop selling the book and to pay a multimillion-dollar settlement to the family. In another case, two students who went on a shooting rampage in 1997 that resulted in the deaths of twelve students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, were avid players of DOOM, a violent video game. The press was quick to establish a causal link between the excessive playing of DOOM (as well as the music of Marilyn Manson) and the mass murder.