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2019-08-12 Science & Technology

Belmont Club: Mass Killings vs. Mass Shootings

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-12 06:05|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Because Wretchard is looking at this in a non-emotional fashion the analysis is utterly irrelevant to the leftist gun-banners' exclusively emotional approach to the subject.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-08-12 07:55|| 2019-08-12 07:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Rampage killers are most comparable to what are called 'lone wolves', self-radicalized extremists with a delusion of leaving a legacy. They are terribly sick people, and can be tagged at an early age and if not cured then... adjusted. At least observed closely.

In any case, the manifestation is never sudden, like in "Falling Down". There are always markers of psychopathy or deep misanthropy. It may be later glossed over by investigators and agencies, but the truth is, there's always a list of misdemeanors or red flags in their trajectory somewhere. They may remain an inevitable by-product of our socio-political evolution as long as we don't find a legal way to surgically alter their behavior*.

But the immediate carers/guardians. The police. The prosecutors, judges, DAs. Why do they slip up, pass-by, remain apathetic to these markers ? In every case we've seen, either the police gave the perp 'a once-over' at some time, or he/they had a record of other infractions. In the El-Paso case the mother herself reported her son before he did it. There should be an accounting for this incompetence.

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It has been seen that by regulating the amount of AVP (plasma arginine vasopressin) reaching the amygdala, violent impulses and the tendency to fly into them can be decreased (or increased for some perverse, ungodly reason) and the brain itself trained on a neurochemical level to counter the extra AVP with receptor antagonists or inhibitors. Although this has been tried only with primates and maybe exclusive residents of the Xinjiang country club, the research is promising.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-12 08:47|| 2019-08-12 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Also it might pay to look into the increase in the use of the stronger "pot" that started to become available in the 1960's . The stronger the pot is made. the more increases in correlation to brain damage , lung cancer, and other health problems. While correlation is not equal to causation there should be enough information to "prove" it one way or another.

Posted by Snavimble Bucket1794 2019-08-12 09:12|| 2019-08-12 09:12|| Front Page Top

#4 The police and the media both need to be held accountable - the one for sins of omission, the other for sins of commission.

Posted by Lex 2019-08-12 09:38|| 2019-08-12 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 As James Hodgkinson disappears from history... make that "is airbrushed quickly from history..."

Posted by magpie 2019-08-12 11:43|| 2019-08-12 11:43|| Front Page Top

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