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To: abner
Yeah, snopes has it's typically balanced [/sarcasm off] read on Darrell Scott's testimony:

Darrell Scott, father of student killed in the Columbine High shootings, gave testimony to a House judiciary sub-committee. True.

The media worked to suppress his testimony. False.

Why does everyone need to hear these words? Darrell Scott didn't say much of anything of substance beyond offering the opinion that gun control wouldn't have prevented the tragedy at Columbine, an opinion that had already been aired and debated by thousands of pundits in the weeks after the shootings at Littleton, and while his status as the parent of a murder victim may lend his words extra poignancy, it doesn't necessarily give him any special insight into the reasons why people kill.

Another pant load from Snopes.

6 posted on 03/16/2006 10:19:09 AM PST by tx_eggman (Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
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To: tx_eggman
"and while his status as the parent of a murder victim may lend his words extra poignancy, it doesn't necessarily give him any special insight into the reasons why people kill."

This brings to mind David Letterman's challenge to O'Reilly that, since he hadn't lost a child in the war, O'Reilly was in no position to criticize Cindy Sheehan's statements.

7 posted on 03/16/2006 11:30:01 AM PST by Always Learning
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