Taking Responsibility Essay

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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 so they could feel better somehow. Unfortunately,

some have used this tragedy as nothing more than an event to be exploited

for their own political gains. People that are afraid of the Internet were

quick to point out that Nazi and hate propaganda and bomb-making recipes

are easily accessed on the Internet, and that "alternative" ideas seem

to flourish on the Internet. Immediately everyone wants to censor the hell

out of the Internet and keep their kids away from it. They fail to mention

the business and education values of the Internet, and dwell on the negative.

Antigun people quickly "forget" about the 60+ bombs that were found and

focused merely on the fact that firearms were used by these psychos. They

immediately want more gun laws and bans (but fail to mention that 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...

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