[lbo-talk] Collective idiocy....

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Mon Dec 17 11:52:16 PST 2012


Yeah - Cullen was saying just this. Unlike you, though, he says that you can make some characterizations. As for anger - not sure what you mean? That you think that the shooter had a target for his anger?

Statistical survey research isn't the only kind of social research, and it isn't the only way to make generalizable claims.

At 02:16 PM 12/17/2012, Jordan Hayes wrote:
>shag writes:
>
>>Psychopaths engage in this sort of behavior - love loud,
>>crazy, pulsating things like bombs, explosives, shoot em ups
>>-- because it's a way to feel something, even if only temporarily.
>
>And yet they most often live their lives never once killing more than one
>person (themselves). I think more than half of what we call "school
>shootings" involve only two bodies: the target of the shooter's lifelong
>anger, and the shooter shortly after. A few of the instances involve
>"bystanders" ... but the kind of thing that happened last week, and in
>Columbine, is practically a unicorn: everyone writes books about them, but
>statistically they don't exist.
>
># "Unicorns: extinct ... or endangered?"
>
>/jordan
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