Shootings can't be blamed on violent games, movies

Editor,

This is in response to Jason Darensburg's letter in Wednesday's Daily Lobo. I thought it was bad enough on the day of the shooting that the news brought on Jack Thompson as a credible expert on school shootings, allowing him to use the tragedy as a soapbox to promote his theory that video games serve as a training ground for future and past school shooters. But now I am exposed to a fellow UNM student using the tragedy for the same purposes and then some.

Suggesting that the U.S. is a brutal society in which its people take pride in violence, destruction and death is quite a skewed view of the world. Every society has some level of violence in it - go back as far as you can in history and you will see that nothing has really changed on this world besides the evolution of technology. Human beings are human beings and will not change. So, isolating his argument to the U.S. is rather shallow.

He cites the film "300" as an example of our bloodlust. Should we ban all violent movies based on historical events? Also, since when has it been considered the responsibility of a nation to raise a child? Another thing that has not drastically changed throughout history is the concept that parents should raise their own children.

Alexander Roessner

UNM student