ertainment industry rarely slows its money machine to consider the welfare of its listeners and viewers. To be perfectly honest, I dont feel it should have to.These quotes left me even more aggravated at how society is viewing this problem. Its as though theyre reaching for explanations as to why. Well how will we ever be able to answer that? This epidemic is exactly that, an epidemic. To end an epidemic you must eliminate the host and in this case the host is the schools. Surveillance, guards, weapons detection are all options we as a nation dont want to admit to. But, these are the times we live in and these times require certain steps to ensure our childrens safety.In closing, I just felt every example Bill Thompson expressed was not just a cop-out for why mainstream violence has become an epidemic. Every one of them can affect and supply a young impressionable mind with the means to murder. But to say we must now place legal blame on those so-called bullies is just madness. We are all individuals capable of making choices. Our laws are made to punish those who chose poorly not our poorly chosen influences....
