Last night on his show, Bill provided his defense for why it's a good thing to run the V-Tech gunman's video, and states that he would do it again. He feels that it's a necessary part of drumming up sufficient public outrage to motivate us to pressure our leaders into making laws that would make this sort of tragedy harder to pull off. His position is that we don't value enough the grief and loss of the victims and their family; that only the lunacy of the killer will move us to action. He further explains that the risk of drawing out would-be copy-cats is outweighed by the greater good of a motivated public.
Perhaps Bill needs to ask himself how he will respond when a copy-cat does come forward and chooses to send his video to Bill instead of NBC, and in it states that he was motivated to his crime by seeing the prior broadcast on Bill's show. ...Would you run that video, Bill?
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