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1 Daniel Ballard  Fri, Oct 5, 2012 6:51:27pm

Maybe a single incident is not such a great way to measure. But we do have a better measure.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

2 Destro  Fri, Oct 5, 2012 7:56:27pm

re: #1 Daniel Ballard

Wrong type of measure.

Try reading:

Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond

An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued — and baffled — America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?" By juxtaposing the historical place of rage in America with the social climate that has existed since the 1980s — when Reaganomics began to widen the gap between executive and average-worker earnings — the author crafts a convincing argument that these schoolyard and office massacres can be seen as modern-day slave rebellions. He presents many fascinating and unexpected cases in detail. Like slave rebellions, these massacres are doomed, gory, sometimes even inadvertently comic, and grossly misunderstood. Taking up where Bowling for Columbine left off, this book seeks to set these murders in their proper context and thereby reveal their meaning.


Also read:

[Link: www.alternet.org...]

A Brief History of Rage, Murder and Rebellion

An interview with Mark Ames, whose book about rage murders in American schools and workplaces claims these violent acts are, in effect, failed revolts.

3 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Oct 5, 2012 8:03:25pm

re: #2 Destro

You do realize what pack of lies Bowling for Columbine is, I trust? RWC's measure is actually excellent, showing that there are many countries more dangerous than the US. That book blurb is just a cheap attempt at demonizing conservatives in general, and Ronald Reagan in specific. It reads like something a left-wing version of Glenn Beck would write. Unworthy of LGF.


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