Just as the OKC bombing of April 19, 1995, made people loath to criticize the Clintonian state, so did the Columbine attack on April 20, 1999 make people warm up to it. I remember that day well, as it was the middle of the Kosovo war, during which Clinton killed as many innocents each day as the Columbine killers did once. But it was supposed to mean that we needed more gun control—the many laws the kids broke that day didn't work, but maybe one more would have done the trick!—as well as more control of Hollywood. Remember? The establishment blamed the whole thing on the Matrix.
Hah. What's a worse example to the youth? An action movie or an imperial state? Michael Moore's only good point in Bowling for Columbine, during his interview with Marilyn Manson, was about foreign policy as an inspiration for gun violence. And yet we were supposed to believe that more Clintonian violence was the answer to 4/19/95 and 4/20/99. American liberals seem a little less naive on that point now. It was the rightists, after all, who complained about V for Vendetta. We wouldn't want another OKC, Columbine or 9/11! Supressing anti-authoritarian attitudes is the conservative solution. Couple it with the leftist phobia of guns and you have the atmosphere for a bipartisan police state.
