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Of course people get bad ideas from movies/books/games. Look at the Inquisition or 9/11, both on a much huger scale than any kind of Columbine. People get ideas from what they read/watch/play. People who are screwed up either twist those ideas to suit them or are too screwed up to reject the screwed up ideas.
With regard to violence in movies, it's not healthy for children to be exposed to gratuitous violence in media and they should be protected from it. Opinions aside, there is a whole lot of research that supports that fact. Unless you are an expert in the field of child psychology who has conducted studies that conclude something different, you have to acknowledge that as fact.
That doesn't mean that I think that movies/games/whatever with gratuitious violence should be illegal. I think it's the parent's responsibility to make sure their children aren't exposed to violent media, and that adults who want to create and/or enjoy violent media should be free to do so.
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