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Bill Clinton: Yes. I don't do it much anymore, but I think I was about 12 years old. But you know, there has to be some extra care…

On the recordApril 1, 1998
Yes. I don't do it much anymore, but I think I was about 12 years old. But you know, there has to be some extra care taken, where children are hunting, to make sure they understand gun safety and also the profound dangers of it. And finally I think all this effort that's been made in the last few years to get the television ratings on violence and have movies evaluated for violence, I think we maybe even need to go underneath that and examine whether, in scenes of violence in movies and television, we have to be very careful not to either glorify it or minimize it, make it look almost cartoon-like. I'll never forget what the principal at Jonesboro told me when we talked after I called her. She said, ``You know, when I went out there and I saw those children lying on the ground and I saw one of them horribly disfigured and all those people gushing blood, it was very different from what I see in the movies,'' she said. Mr. Donaldson. Well, we have movies that are violent and--``L.A. Confidential'' has won a lot of awards; remember a few years ago, ``Fargo''--and television programs on the networks are violent. Do you think there would be something to just saying to Hollywood and to everybody involved, ``Guys, cut it out, or at least cut it down?''
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