FC: Gov. Bush links Columbine massacre to Internet use

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/0326212&mode=nested

   Bush Links Columbine Massacre to Internet Use
   posted by cicero on Wednesday October 11, @10:25PM
   from the sounds-a-lot-like-joseph-lieberman dept.

   George W. Bush may have bested Al Gore in tonight's presidential
   debate, but it sure wasn't because of the governor's tech-savviness.
   Warned the Texas Republican, in response to a gun-control question:
   "Columbine spoke to a larger issue, and it's really a matter of
   culture. It's a culture that somewhere along the line we begun to
   disrespect life, where a child can walk in and have their heart
   turn dark as a result of being on the Internet and walk in and
   decide to take somebody else's life." It was undeniably a good,
   mushy, appeal-to-the-softhearted line, but the sheer schmaltziness of
   it is in questionable taste. For instance: Was the Net really to
   blame? Shouldn't even a "compassionate conservative" want to hold
   miscreants responsible for their own actions? And would the guv have
   offered the same warning to millions of Americans if the Columbine
   killers had, say, been regulars at the public library?

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