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Hmm, I think people have the right to know who does what crime. If you know the victims, I think you should be able to know the ones who committed the crime as well. I think, and some people might be a little irked by this, they're the more important subjects. They're the ones you can learn from. Not that the victims aren't important, or that they didn't have something important to say, but they're just normal people who dealt with their problems in a healthy, normal way.

I think the root of the problem is usually just mental illness. These kids are delusional, or they're fixating on certain ideas and losing touch with reality at some point. For example, one of the Columbine shooters compared the mission to his favorite video game, Doom, so I definitely think it played a part in his mindset. I don't think video games are at fault, though. You'd have to read some of the killers' journal entries, but they were both very dark creatures. Harris was very angry, and obviously wanted to make a statement to society, whereas Kleibold was just very depressed. I don't think you can really blame video games, Quentin Tarantino movies or the media for any of that, but people will continue to say that's what does it. If you watch too much TV, if you play too many video games, spend too much time on the internet, or listen to the wrong kind of music, you're not living in reality.

It's sort of a chicken-egg thing. I think it's much more logical that these guys were mentally ill before they started playing video, seeing as though there are no studies that can prove that any forms of entertainment can cause mental illness, and it's usually something that you develop as you grow up.