The school shooting in Colorado brought a lot of controversy.  People started blaming the easiest things they could get their hands at. Christians and many others blamed the rock star Marilyn Manson.  Others blamed videogames like Doom.  That were first person shooters and you shoot whatever you want in the game.  Other people decided to blame movies like The Matrix and some other movie with Leonardo Dicaprio, where he shot a couple of students in a school.  But is entertainment to be blamed?
    I don't think we should blame the easiest things we can get our things on.  The problem is not entertainment.  The problem is that these young people can't tell the difference between what's real and what's fantasy.   Only a person with the right mind would know this.  It's not entertainment.  No matter what people do, these things can't be prevented.  Entertainment has part of the blame, but only to a degree.  There are some other things out there besides entertainment that cause violence.  The first step is not to attack entertainment.  The first step is to get together as people and try to solve this in a patient manner. To take your time, even thought you act fast.
    Another step to this problem is to do something with guns.  Young people get these weapons and they don't know what they are doing when they are angry.  Their anger is so huge, that they eventually regret what they have done, after the crime.  With no weapons around maybe there won't be any deaths.
    What makes these young people act like this?  I wouldn't say it's entertainment.  It's rather the pressure or hatred that other people give them.  They are mistreated and schools seem to do nothing about it.  Schools are not acting as they should. Schools always tell their students to talk to your counselors, but counselors aren't always going to help you.  Sometimes they are busy and have no time to talk to you.  Other times you may go to a teacher, but they don't seem to mind.  Some of them just ignore you, because they might be having a bad day.  When these young people have nobody to talk to their anger keeps growing and none of it is being released.  This anger becomes so huge that it eventually blows up, just like a balloon.
    Marilyn Manson seems to look very devil-like and that's why people seem to hate him.  The moment they look at him the first thing they say is "gay," "the devil," or "the antichrist."  But is this man really what he seems?  We do not know this man and we judge him by these things.  Deep inside he could be a very nice person.  It's kind of like "don't judge a book by it's cover."  Marilyn Manson might be acting.  Kind of like expressing himself, but this may be his character in music, but at home he may be a different person.
    All I have to say is "LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP."  Don't just go out there and make up something. Don't judge someone or something before you know it.
                                                                                                    Article by Roberto Carlos Martinez