CDR: Re: Gov. Bush links Columbine massacre to Internet use

[Mac Norton]

Let me see if I understand this.  It's okay to blame the Net for
Columbine as long as you don't call for licensing.  So it's OK
to blame gunshows for gun murders as long as you don't call 
for licensing?  Right?
MacN
PS:  What part of this debate/discussion was *not* very small,
and inconsequential? 
M
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:
> 
> This was a very small, and inconsequential, part of the debate/discussion.
> 
> Had George Bush called for _Internet licensing_ in some concrete way, 
> comparable to the way Al Gore called for gun licensing, I would be 
> more concerned about Bush's comments. But he did not.
> 
> Throwing in a line about the Columbine creeps being influenced by the 
> Internet (or by Quake and Doom and other games, or by "The Matrix," 
> or by being spoiled suburban brats) is not the same as calling for 
> unconstitutional abridgments of freedoms.
> 
> Normally I vote Libertarian. This year I may vote for Bush as a vote 
> for who will do me, us, and the Constitution the lesser damage of the 
> two. (All voting is about bang for the buck, about effectiveness of a 
> vote...an election is not about "voting for the best man," it is 
> instead about minimizing damage.)
> 
> 
> --Tim May
> 
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