own actions anymore. Someone commits a heinous crime, and anything but the criminal gets

blamed. It was a harsh childhood, abusive parents, violent movies and video games, the availability of

guns and bomb making materials, the Internet, pornography, peer pressure, etc.

In my mind, if you commit a crime, then you are a criminal. I am the only one that makes the

decisions I make in life. Others may influence my decisions, but ultimately, I am the one that makes

that final choice. No matter how hard and pathetic you think your life is, or how badly society treats

you, or what you watch on TV, or what you can buy from the store or read on the Internet, you made

the decision to break the law-nobody made the decision for you. Oliver Stone didn't tell you to watch

Natural Born Killers and then go mimic the crimes. The NRA did not make you illegally purchase

guns. The Internet did not force you to download recipes for bombs.

The massacre at Columbine High School was a tragedy. Instead of looking at these kids that

committed the crime and putting blame where it belongs, everyone was more than wil

bombs and shoot at minorities and jocks?

as nothing more than an event to be exploited for their own political gains. People that are afraid of

threatened other kids. They had Web pages detailing their bombs and various hate messages. They

crowd goes, I must seem like the most dangerous person in America. And yet I haven't committed a

the Internet were quick to point out that Nazi and hate propaganda and bomb-making recipes are

And in the same respect, if I screw up, I admit that I screwed up. Nobody's fault but my own. And if I

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