> > You said it. Too many of society's problems would be alleviated if not outright solved if we stopped looking to put blame everywhere except where it belongs. People in this country don't seem to want to take responsibility for their own actions. It's one of the reasons we're so lawsuit happy. Break a leg, find someone to sue. Gah.
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> The core of everyone's personality is to further the self. All of us think in different ways... and some of us will put the blame unjustly on other things. But that is what you get in a society where each individual is free to become whatever he wants, or will be.

"With Great Power must come Great Responsibility"
---Stan Lee

The above quote is from Spider-Man, but can applie to everyone. There is no truly powerless person. If you have a friend or you are a parent or have a sibling, for good or ill, you can influence the people you know, and that is a responsiblity. If you have a pet you have power of that animal, and the responsibility to take care of him. If you know how to shot a gun you have power, and the responsibility not to miss use that gun. I belive that we are all responsible for how we use what power we are given. The Columbine shooters are responsible for the deaths they caused when they missused those guns. The only other people I lay any of the blame at is there parents, they lived in the same house with these kids while they were stock pileing weapons and building bombs. To be so uninvolved in your child's life that you don't know that they are building bombs in the basement seems to border on criminal. My parents have always been involved in the lives of my sister and myself, they would have known something weird was going on. But that is were I end, I don't blame DOOM (the video game) violent movies or music. I don't even blame the NRA (I don't like the NRA for diffrent reason that I won't go into here). I blame the shooters for shooting, and I blame the parents for bad parenting.

Speed'my2¢'ball