"Life is Precious, or It's Not"

Columbine is one of the most sensitive topics spoken about towards young adults and their social lives in school. Coming from Virginia were we recently had a school shooting at one of the largest colleges, I am more understanding of the topic of school violence. During the Columbine situation two students took over there high school one gruesome afternoon. The shoots began mid day and ended late afternoon after the police arrested the victim's. I call them victim's for they suffered from there own unstable decisions. They were victim's pushed by their peers. Some students who witnessed the upbringing of these two boys offered insider information based on the boys social lives. They were frequently picked on and bullied by the students and teachers of their school. Some of the students and teachers that were harmed or killed were individuals that cased them mental harm. As studies went forth after the shooting, on of the boys was sent to a psych ward were he was diagnosed with an unstable mind. So is it true that guns and violence are provoked by outsider influences or is it programed in our minds that killing is a natural feeling courser? Do the video games, movies, and political choices house were our feelings derive from? Does the media also play a role in how we react to certain situations? All of these questions can lead to more that one answer to why we react in ways that we do, but who says what is right is right and what is wrong is wrong. Personal choices can be controlled by the power of the media as Barbara Kingsolver states but we in control of our own lives need to better observe the obstacles that we come upon and draw paths that best fit the situation.
Children are paying attention and this we need to realize. They are like little sponges and absorb everything put and said in front of them. The 0 tolerance rule should then be put into affect here and our children should be monitored to force them to see the world as a sharp object ready to cut away at our hands if not held with caution.