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Monday, October 02, 2006

As I write this the national news services are reporting the third school shooting in a week; two of which were by men specifically targetting girls. What's happening here? There seems to be no apparent pattern with one attack in Colorado at a fairly affluent suburban school and another at a rural, Amish one room schoolhouse. There's nothing that might tie these attacks together and we may just be looking at a statisically aberrant cluster. On the other hand, I've got to wonder how much of this is driven by the rise of violence in our society on TV and in Videogames. I'm not talking about the normal well-adjusted individual but more about the marginal member of society. Has the increased levels of violence seen begun to erode the boundaries of what is unthinkable in the minds of some? Hard to prove statisitically and so it's hard to counter some sort of First Amendment argument but one has to wonder.

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