Responsibility to the responsible

I see all these crimes in the news where the blame is being chucked around blindly and think to myself that it is about time people started placing responsibility on the criminal rather than on the books they read, the music they listened to, the video games they played, or the upbringing they had, etc.

What needs to be realised is that no matter what books, music and video games people utilize, their own actions are their own responsibility.

They were the ones who decided to utilize it.

This applies whether they took influence from the aformentioned things or not because, to put it plainly, it was them that decided to act on it and if they were stupid enough not to think things through properly and consider the possible consequences then they deserve punishment for that alone anyway, along with whatever punishment is decided for the consequence of their actions.

Responsibility to the responsible.

Not the shit that they chose to read/write/watch/whatever and to act upon without considering the consequence of.