children to commit the ultimate crime. If the guns were gone, this would not have happened. Tougher laws would have prevented the massacre at Columbine High. The gun shows made it easy for the killers to get guns. The fact that over eighteen firearms and explosives laws were violated seems to have escaped the American people. The two teens showed total disregard for the laws of man, and the laws of god. We, as a society, must look away from the tools chosen for destruction, and begin to focus on what has led us to our present state of chaos. It is not gun availability, drugs, or lack of law enforcement that has brought us to the place where children kill. The issue of the "right to bears arms" bears no relevance to the issue of crime in our country. Moreover, the "right to bear arms," bears no relevance to the fact that our children are killing. Unfortunately, the root causes are many. Violence is prevalent in every area of our lives. The news regularly greets us at the end of the day with tales of crime and corruption. Another youth killed, pictures of the body after this message. Music, movies, video games, all portray violence in a no consequences format. I believe it is the movement away from personal responsibility that led the way to our present dilemma. There seems to be an excuse for every criminal activity. His dad slapped him, they lived in a bad section of town, and their dad ran off when they were young. If the hardships of life are legitimate excuses to commit crimes, the people of the depression years should have all become killers. Guns were certainly readily available at that time....
