Editor, Gazette-Journal:

There are several factors that contribute to acts of violence.

In today’s society, we are dealing with decaying morals; children born out of wedlock, growing up with little or no supervision, and some with only one parent. Some of these children don’t even know who their father is and some of these mothers don’t know who fathered their child. The child doesn’t have a chance to become a productive member of society.

I think movie producers are partially responsible for the violence in our society. Almost every movie produced is full of violence. Young, immature minds are not able to understand that these actions are not normal and therefore not able to cope with this violence. Some computer games are violent. Children are challenged to kill the other guy in the game and this is not healthy.

Recently, there have been numerous senseless shootings. The suspects had/have mental disabilities and must not have access to weapons, perio...