Society blames kids rather than control guns .
Tell us by email what you think of this column. The punditry generally follows the same pattern. Unfortunately, all four aspects of the preceding analysis are wrong. There is little argument among those who study youth violence that victimization, anger and alienation are risk factors for aggression. But demonstrating that the majority of young people who commit acts of violence are angry or alienated, or have been the targets of others' aggression, is a far cry from showing that the majority of angry, victimized or alienated teenagers will commit an act of violence.