Taking responsability
1999 must be a great year to be alive if you are a criminal! Nobody takes responsibility for his or her 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 willing to point a quick finger of blame
at dozens of existing gun laws were broken by these boys as it is, and that the laws now being proposed in the aftermath would not have prevented this sort of thing). Others quickly point out that these kids played violent arcade games and watched violent movies--ban these things as well. People that don't like or understand new music blame Marilyn Manson and other alternative and/or metal bands. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I take full responsibility for my actions, and I naively expect others to do the same. Maybe I should just point fingers and blame others for bad stuff that happens to me. Sorry, but I take too much pride in working for what I want out of life instead of sitting back and blaming others for what I don't have. And in the same respect, if I screw up, I admit that I screwed up. Nobody's fault but my own. And if I ever commit some crime and get caught, blame ME instead of the economy, the gun laws, the drug laws, the media, the weather, or any other stupid thing that is on the "cool list of things to blame today." Am I the only one that is saying, "These kids were psychos that should have been stopped before it got thi
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