Everyone agrees, I believe, that the Virginia Tech massacre was a horrible, senseless act. It seems to me that now we are concentrating on how it happened, with much discussion on changing laws regarding gun control and mental health. All these are important issues, but isn’t why it happened more important?

When our entertainment has become foul-mouthed, bullying humor full of violence and sexual behavior, are we not all to blame?

Don’t we need, as a society, to clean up our acts and be a kinder, more compassionate society and demand of the cinema, TV and reading material more wholesome entertainment? How can we do that? Let them know: Write letters, e-mail and phone.

— Maxine Fritz, Camarillo