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> "With Great Power must come Great Responsibility"
> ---Stan Lee
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> 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.
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> Speed'my2¢'ball



I completely agree with the point that nobody seems to want to take responsibility for what they do. It reminds me of the robber who fell through a glass window on the roof of a building, and then sued the proprieters for having a defective building. One thing, though, is that I don't blame the parents that much. They said that they knew very little about the things that their sons were doing. However, I still think that the teasing and ostracizing of the rest of the student body contributed to the eruption of violence.

By the way, our gun laws obviously don't work very well, because A whole lot of people who shouldn't have access to guns do, even though there might not be any in the house.

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