Day 2: Common sense

There seems to be a trend lately about blaming media and such for the miscreant acts of kids and those that commit heinous deeds. So and so killed 32 people in VT, there must be some connection to the video games he played or the movies he watched. This kid killed his friend because the songs he listens to told him it was ok. Jack Thompson even tried to thwart Microsoft's attempt at terrorism by trying to stop the release of Flight Simulator X since its a realistic flight trainer that a terrorist or misguided youth can use to fly planes into buildings. WTF is wrong with people? What happened to personal responsibility for their actions? What happened to kids being taught right from wrong by their PARENTS?
I've played video games since i could prolly walk (thanks to my brother and my parents for buying him his first commodore). I've watched hundreds of violent movies and just plain wrong cartoons (i'm sure some of you remember those Tom and Jerry cartoons and the "Big black mama" character running about), and you know what? Amazingly i have never killed a single person. I dont plan on shooting my co-workers for being disgruntled with my job. I wonder why this is? Oh wait i do know... BECAUSE I WAS RAISED BY MY PARENTS TO BE A GOOD PERSON. Sure im an asshole in general, but only to a point. Sure i want to shoot everyone on the fucking roads for being shitty drivers, BUT I DONT. Why? because i freaking know better. So when i get to read these great stories about Jack Thompson suing every violent video game out there or articles on parents taking their fucking 4 year old children to freaking Hostel 2 or see another goddamn idiot parent walk into Gamestop and buy their 8 year old GTA San Andreas, i get perturbed... Raise your kids right and let them take responsibility for their actions. If some kid shoots up a school, maybe it wasn't the video games or the hippity hop, maybe their parents did try to raise them right... maybe they were just fucking psycho so let them deal with the consequences.