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Old 12-28-2019, 08:52 PM   #20191 (permalink)
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To go along with my low hanging nutsack.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 12-29-2019, 02:28 PM   #20192 (permalink)
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Old 12-30-2019, 06:03 AM   #20193 (permalink)
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The 41 mass killings were the most in a single year since the AP/USA TODAY and Northeastern database began tracking such events in 2006, but other research going back to the 1970s shows no other year with as many mass slayings. The second-most killings in a year before 2019 was 38 in 2006.
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Q: Why does America have so many mass murders?
A: Because too many people hate everything about this ****ing place.
Q: Why do they hate it so much?
A: Because in one way or another they’re chronically abused and treated like trash.
Q: Don’t other countries have large numbers of disgruntled people?
A: Yes but America is the worst.
Q: Even worse than China and Sudan?
A: It’s about the same.
Q: That’s hyperbolic and ridiculous!
A: The proof is in the pudding.
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Old 12-30-2019, 09:05 AM   #20194 (permalink)
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Q: Why does America have so many mass murders?
The big budget action movies started getting really boring and Americans solve problems by taking them into their own hands.
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The big budget action movies started getting really boring and Americans solve problems by taking them into their own hands.
It’s the PG13 compromise that’s ruined this bitch
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It’s the PG13 compromise that’s ruined this bitch
Watch Blade and Deadpool.
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I feel like half the shooters we have might have been serial killers if they just had a bit more ambition

But being a serial killer is hard work

Being a shooter is the easy way to wreak havoc
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I think they’re entirely different animals
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Old 12-30-2019, 06:11 PM   #20199 (permalink)
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I think a more accurate interpretation would be that they might have been spree killers if they were a bit more deranged and separated from reality, but the example set by previous mass shooters gives them something to strive for they wouldn't have thought possible before with limited imagination and motivation, and the increasing alienation of modern society gives them that boost in nihilism they need to take the plunge.
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I'm speaking subjectively oblviously... I have no idea

But what was the last great serial killer that really caught everyone's attention? The DC snipers? Seems like most of the big names are from the past. Bundy. Dahmer, Gacy, etc.

Yet almost all the major mass shooters are post Columbine. You had your odd case like the guy in the Texas watchtower. But it wasn't the thing back then.
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