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  1. Very interesting article, but I can’t help thinking that the big distinction Mr. Collins makes between “rampage killers” and people who are merely extreme introverts (their obsession with stockpiling weapons) amounts to a tautology. Its like he’s saying that a potential rampage killer is someone who’s planning a killing rampage.

  2. One idea that has been turning around in my head for a few years now is the repression of violence, not the glorification of it.

    I was bullied, severely, in my youth. I was small (5 feet tall at High School graduation and 83lbs.) and very, very shy. But. At that time, you could still ‘settle things’ in outside on the playground. Men could still get in a fistfit and not get arrested.

    Violence used to be understood as necessary sometimes, though a last resort. But not anymore. Violence is always, always bad, wrong, never necessary.

    For all of the anti-bullying programs and PSAs and measures, we still don’t let the victims fight back and win (or even lose) without penalty.

    That kind of repression can’t be good for the rage that must build inside of them.

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