But we feel it's important to live in a society where ideas and information are available, rather than one where information is doled out in scarce rations, available to some of the people some of the time. No, it's not. Quite the opposite. It is my civic responsibility to see that ideas and information are freely available to anyone over 18 who wants it. It doesn't matter if they want to plant a garden, criticize the powers that be, or learn how drugs are made.
Investigators use our police-science volumes.
Novelists and screenwriters use almost everything in our catalog to add authenticity to the entertainment on which we spend a good chunk of paycheck every week. We don't advocate committing any crimes or hurting anyone, and we, like everyone else, feel that what happened in Springfield was a tragedy. The guns that Kinkel used, however, had little to do with the information he got on the Internet. They belonged to his father, and to him. Trying to quash information protected under the First Amendment won't bring back those people who were killed.