Who’s to Blame?
... this violence into school. That the media tells kids that this how you should look, dress and feel and if you don’t do all of this things then you are not in the in crowd. So then the popular kids see this and they began to pick on you and tease you because you are different and a original. The next essay written by a student named Darren Beals question the media, the internet, and placing the blame. He begins by telling a story that happened on May 21, 1998 where a 15 year-old boy shoot and killed his parents and also went to the school where he shoot several of his classmates. Beals analysis how Kip Kinkel, the student who shoot his parents and fellow classmates, would learn how to build a bomb and learn how to shoot a gun at an early age. Beals argument is more towards the internet whether then the tv media. He says that, “ The internet showed him how to build bombs. The internet allowed him to discuss explosives with other sickos.” There is no one to supervise you on the internet. Beals did his own research to see how easy it was to get information on guns, bombs and other things. He found out that it was way to easy and that some people even told you how to get revenge others and what might be the best way to do it. He doesn’t blame Kip Kinkel parents and he doesn’t hold the internet responsible, or tv, or other media. Beals just gives the audience an over all view of what might have be a bigger influence on him. Beals also states that this might have gave Kinkel more detail to carry out his violence. Kinkel was already violent so people giving him information and no supervision just made the rage to kill stronger. I think society is the one to blame. It takes a village to rise a child. Once that child gets o...