text: I do feel we are a society that has come to make excuses for everything and responsibilty falls to the waste side.  Either that or we just pass the blame along til we forget what the blame is.  If you have a clean cut case.  He killed her with a gun in the lobby.  Its simple.  He goes to jail.  Case closed.  But when it comes to the tougher issues.  He killed her with a gun in the lobby but he has been on meds since 85 for an illness he cant help and some one forgot to remind him to take it.  Thats where blame gets passed along like a basketball.  Do we blame him or blame the person who forgot to remind him to take the meds that keep him balanced.  \nIn my honest opinion we have become a society who is weak.  We look for the easy way out.  We dont look at the source of the problem.  We assume that either the man or the caregiver of the mentally ill is responsible.  We do not look at the illness and say, how could we have helped him better before this happened.  We dont want to take the hard cases.  And so the ball keeps going around the court.