On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:12:20 -0600, F. George McDuffee
wrote:

On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:51:05 -0500, Ed Huntress
wrote:


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No. But outlawing the practice of walking through town...
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The problem is that no one has any data on what the real
problem(s) are, only on the means and tools immediately used
in creating these incidents.

That's all interesting, George, but while you're fishing around in the
dustbins of pharmacology, don't forget that there are two things going
on today that play into the desires of people suffering from some
kinds of mental illnesses and distress: First, if you really need
attention (and many of them do), we have cable news and the Internet,
by which your glorious revenge will be played around the world in a
couple of hours; second, we have tools available today that can really
make a big splash.

A hundred years ago, your military Trapdoor Springfield wasn't going
to do the job that you can do today with a Bushmaster M4 look-alike.
And the news wasn't likely to get past your county line.

It's a qualitatively different situation, and it doesn't require
pharmacology to explain it.

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Ed Huntress