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In reply to the discussion: Michael Moore: It's the Guns - But We All Know, It's Not Really the Guns [View all]Jim Warren
(2,736 posts)10. Too many bees in the hive?
I agree with your sentiments and thanks for coming forward. I too have held back. The horrors of a society attacking it's most vulnerable is beyond common reasoning. The acts of pedophilia or mass murder have me aghast and, not to be obscene, I think what is wrong with a people that buggers it's children or kills innocents? Perhaps it's the sensationalizing of the "if it bleeds, it leads" 24/7 media. Struggling for answers I wonder if it has always been so and a partial answer at least in part I see this:
http://thepublicintellectual.org/2011/05/02/a-crime-puzzle/
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Michael Moore: It's the Guns - But We All Know, It's Not Really the Guns [View all]
Jim Warren
Dec 2012
OP
But probably have a lot to do with the c. 12K murders a year that aren't in schools.
Spider Jerusalem
Dec 2012
#24
No he was clear. If we can alleviate poverty, which drives property crimes, then
Luminous Animal
Dec 2012
#7
Following Portugal in decriminalizing drugs and treating it as a public health issue
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2012
#11
I'm not sure if it's entirely being "chicken shits", it could also be an undeniable sense of the
patrice
Dec 2012
#14
"2. We are an easily frightened people and it is easy to manipulate us with fear. "
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2012
#8
I agree and also wonder about Conservatism as a political movement and how the American version
BlancheSplanchnik
Dec 2012
#20