The Social learning theory vs. media

The social learning theory in chapter 13 states that some people imitate what they see on TV or in any media through process called observational learning. I believe this to be very true and there are many cases that this has actually occurred. For instance, a while ago there were two people in Louisiana that murdered people and got caught. They tried to get away with it by saying that the movie Natural Born Killers made them do it. In other words they watched the movie and thought it was a cool thing to do so they imitated them. Although this is just one extreme case, it is still evident in other less obvious ways.
This theory is one of the main reason people are trying to put bans on violent video games. Even though there is no recorded cases of someone blaming a video game for a murder but there are records of kids becoming more violent in school because of certain video games. In fact just recently a kid in England ran away from home because his father took away his xbox. He mentioned that the child had been a lot more violent and ill tempered after playing Call of Duty 4 and tried to blame Microsoft. Now Microsoft put out a 50,000 dollar reward to whomever finds this kid. Not only does this display the theory but it also shows that even the manufacturers of these products know what is going on as well.