Where Should The Blame Be
It happened April of 1999. It was the single worst tragedy ever to occur within a high school. Two high school students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, marched right into their school armed head to toe with weapons, and opened fire on their peers. Who is to blame for this senseless act of slaughter? Should the parents have discovered their children's plot before it happened, should we consider their peers part of the problem, or should we find the media at fault with placing violent thoughts into children's minds? The argument that the parents are responsible is a good one. Parents should know what their children are doing at all times. That statement is true to an extent, however, in our generation, kids are growing up much faster than they did in the past that means they are given much more freedom. Also, there are many circumstances that may cause parents to di
The final responsible group could be the entertainment industry. In this day and age, popular games such as Doom, Quake, and others have portrayed death and killing as glamorous and fun. In a number of video tape recordings the two shooters made days prior to the incident, they made several references to a video game called Doom. They even went as far as naming a shot gun they used in the murders the same name as one of the shotguns in the video game Doom. So the blame could justly fit, but it shouldn't stand alone. stance themselves with their children. These circumstances may include a family in which both parents work full-time jobs which make it near impossible to monitor their high school child at all times. Also, the challenge of hiding things from your parents is not all that For these two juveniles to make such a move, so desperate and awful, they would h
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