The original webpage appears to have mysteriously disappeared.. So, Google's cache of the article is at
http://209.85.229.132/search?client=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
A couple of quotes from the article:
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“I’m sure that when they look back at what they have done in 10 years time they will be cringing with embarrassment.”
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Yes? And? I should think 90% of people did stuff at 18 that they were embarrased by when they got older. I know I did.
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The Dunblane survivors were kept away from the spotlight in the aftermath of the tragedy to allow them to cope. Indeed, no photographs of any of the children have been seen in more than a decade, and the social network sites give the first insight into how their lives have progresse
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So they were given a deserved quiet life? Quiet that is, until some slavering hack from the Express decided to look them up, presumably in search of a story that (for once) didn't involve rehashing the death of a Royal.
Another way to look at it: They are teenagers. Teenagers do things like this (it's actually an important part of growing up). They have also been through a horror the likes of which most of us will never encounter, watching their friends die horribly and in agony.
What's worse? Them acting like normal teenagers and getting the same attention from the media that normal teenagers would (ie none apart from the odd uncovered programme showing police chasing drunken teenagers up the street), or them acting like normal teenagers and having to put up with the apparent disapproval of various journalists, MPs and other people who frankly have no business commenting?