But more importantly, the Republicans are trying to have it both ways. They advocate personal responsibility, except when it's politically valuable to do so. When women or minorities complain about systematic discrimination in the work place, the Republicans take the side of the business establishment and tell people to stop blaming society for their problems. But it is apparently acceptable to blame Democratic social programs or liberal movie makers for the brutal murder of innocent people. Our society has crazy people running around in it.
Crazy people do crazy things.
It has nothing to do with what government benefits they receive, what race or sex they are or what movie they saw the night before. The Republican Party needs to stick to its guns and place the blame for these horrible crimes squarely on the shoulders of the people who committed them. Steven Martens is a junior in journalism mass communication from Cedar Rapids. Copyright 1995 by the Iowa State Daily Publications Board. All rights reserved.