On April 20, 1999, two high school students in Littleton, Colorado changed the way my generation live our lives. No longer could you mention the word “bomb”, clip your finger nails in school, or wave a chicken tender at a teacher or fellow student. The reason being our country was paranoid with fear. Ironically on that same tragic morning, United States Military Forces dropped move bombs over Kosovo than on any other one day strike in the war. Maryland Manson intelligently remarks, “Why not blame the president?” The media choose to overlook or push this particular story in the background because it w

Other Americans feel the need to take matters into there own hands, literally. To state it bluntly, people feel safer with guns in there own hands under their own control. An example is the Michigan Militia, and their, “just in case” attitude. To this group of “normal people” as they call themselves, being prepared is a comfort zone. Former militia member and brother of convicted Oklahoma City Bomber Terry Nichols, James Nichols sleeps with a loaded semi-automatic weapon underneath his pillow. It amazes me the level people needed to be reached to obtain the feeling of protection and comfort.

When confronted with the question, “Why all the violence in the states?” Americans quickly respond blaming heavy metal gothic music, violent video games and films. All are easy excuses to point a finger, still Americans honest answer is fear. To alleviate fear individuals possess guns, except in reality more guns equal a greater amount of fear. The gothic music capital of the world is Germany, all our violent video games originate from Japan, and Europeans watch the same gory horror flicks we see, yet these countries combined to embody only 5% of the deaths caused

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