<DIV>what about comparisons of the crime rate generally? We are a more violent culture, such that people are "closer to the edge" of violent anti-social behavior. I do think it was the violence of the Gulf War that triggered anything in Nichols, but the politics of and around the war. Given his emersion in a violent culture, more generally, his reaction was violent.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><B><I>Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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