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I have copied and pasted for your general info. I can add nothing that has not already been said.
I only wish the powers that be could open their ears and get past their brick wall bias and hear what is being said...
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Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Joy Scott - a student killed in the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado - did make this speech during testimony on May 27, 1999 before the Subcommittee on Crime of the House Judiciary Committee. It was the first of many similar talks he has delivered on the subject.
Spurred on in part by writings in the notebooks and diaries left behind by his daughter, Mr. Scott - the son of an Episcopalian minister, though he himself is adamantly non-denominational - quit his job, set up a non-profit organization called The Columbine Redemption, and embarked on a grueling schedule of speaking engagements all across the United States to spread his message.
Was Scott's testimony inadequately covered by the press, as most versions of this forwarded email suggest? That is no doubt a matter of opinion. There wasn't a great deal of major news coverage - you aren't likely to have seen it on television, for example - but there was coverage. (The same goes for the testimony given by several other of the parents of the Columbine victims who appeared before the same committee, by the way, some of whom expressed opinions which differed considerably from Mr. Scott's.) The speech was covered nationally by the Scripps Howard and Associated Press wire services, not to mention in daily newspapers across the U.S., such as the Denver Rocky Mountain News, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Washington Times, the Boston Globe, the Arizona Republic, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Sun-Times... well, you get the idea.
Spurred on in part by writings in the notebooks and diaries left behind by his daughter, Mr. Scott - the son of an Episcopalian minister, though he himself is adamantly non-denominational - quit his job, set up a non-profit organization called The Columbine Redemption, and embarked on a grueling schedule of speaking engagements all across the United States to spread his message.
Was Scott's testimony inadequately covered by the press, as most versions of this forwarded email suggest? That is no doubt a matter of opinion. There wasn't a great deal of major news coverage - you aren't likely to have seen it on television, for example - but there was coverage. (The same goes for the testimony given by several other of the parents of the Columbine victims who appeared before the same committee, by the way, some of whom expressed opinions which differed considerably from Mr. Scott's.) The speech was covered nationally by the Scripps Howard and Associated Press wire services, not to mention in daily newspapers across the U.S., such as the Denver Rocky Mountain News, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Washington Times, the Boston Globe, the Arizona Republic, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Sun-Times... well, you get the idea.
I may be mistaken on this and please correct me if I am wrong... but are any of the newspapers mentioned above considered as middle of the road or would you say they lean mostly to the right? My point being that coverage was reported in many conservative papers but not many, if any, 'liberal' papers.
Anyone that believes that the media is fair and balanced (to quote Fox News) is wearing rose colored glasses and drinking koolaid.
I also find it interesting as a sideline note that a vast majority of the government leaders in DC have armed body guards, heavy security in their offices and homes and many have CCP (which of course are supposedly illegal in DC) but many absolutely do not want 'Joe Citizen' to have the same rights for his security. In other words... let "us" dictate your lifestyle and rules .... we know what's best for you....
