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I really don't see how you can blame violent TV, movies, and video games for campus shootings. Those of us over the age of forty spent our Saturday mornings in front of the TV watching classic cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Wile Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn, and Daffy Duck perform acts of violence in every episode. Who can forget the classic line from Daffy Duck after Elmer Fudd shot him in the beak with his double-barrel shotgun? "You're despicable!"

To date, I have not shot anyone in the face, dropped an anvil on anyone's head, or harmed anyone in any way. Now that I'm over forty, Bugs Bunny is no longer on the air. When I do happen to see it on Boomerang or the Cartoon Network, I have noticed that instead of seeing Daffy get his beak shot off, they show an explosion from the shotgun facing the TV screen. What entertained me on snowy or rainy Saturday mornings as a child has been deemed unfit for today's children.

As for movies,I watched Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, and Carrie. I never had the urge to kill anyone because of what I saw in a movie.

Granted, we didn't have video games that depicted violence the way the super systems of today do, but there were violent video games in the game rooms across the country. First person shooters with guns attached to the cabinets have been around since the mid-eighties.

I really don't think most school campus killers are influenced by any form of violence on TV, in movies, or video games. At some point, they make a conscience decision to kill knowing that it is wrong. Is it because they have been hurt without reason? Payback for some wrong they feel the world has done against them? The media tries to place blame anywhere but on the person responsible. I wonder how they decide this since most of the shooters kill themselves and leave no clues as to why. That alone should be a clue. They don't want someone to take their life for what they have done, and so, they take it themselves.

I think the bigger problem comes from tabloid sensationalizing stories to the point where the shooter becomes famous for being infamous. The media takes the John Doe to their front page and keeps him there as long as the story sells. From in depth looks into what kind of childhood these killers had to what the kids in school thought of them, they find new ways to sell an old story. In the process the person who should be considered a cold-blooded killer becomes a high profile celebrity.

One thing that the human persona

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