Columbine Who's To Blame Essay

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Who’s Responsible? I researched and looked for all of my information trying to figure out who was responsible for the horrific tragedy of Columbine when in reality, there were lots of factors in this event and all of them added up evenly in many ways. Each and every one of the sources I’ve found has both good points of view but they also have downsides at the same time. A lot of people were wrongfully blamed and criticized for being themselves, therefore pulled into this tragedy without reasoning. To be honest though, there are too many reasons behind the sickening catastrophe of Columbine. One of the first people that were blamed was Marilyn Manson. "America loves to find an icon to hang its guilt on. But, admittedly, I have assumed the …show more content…
had they seen what their children had become, they would have had them incarcerated or committed, Harris and Klebold's fault, they were psychopathic, psychotic killers who twisted and resisted every attempt to help or to stop them, and basically society’s fault all together, had the teenagers’ minds not been filled with violent images, they would have been peaceful.“Face reality. Bullies, psychopaths and killers are like the weather – they’ve always been with us and always will be. We can’t change the weather any more than we can completely prevent massacres and tragedies.” I completely agree with him on this because not only one of these topics is to blame for all of this. Like I said before, there are a lot of reasons that all take part in what happened in

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