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To: SeminoleSoldier

“Is it just me or has there been a huge spike in these sort of things in the past two months or so?”

Yep, my own theory is the blow out media coverage of one tends to push a new would-be perpetrator over the edge on the “rationality” of going ahead with it themselves.

I’d like to see what the motive of this one was.


10 posted on 03/29/2009 10:26:20 AM PDT by headstamp 2 ("Government is a disease masquerading as it's own cure")
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To: headstamp 2

It’s not copycat crime this time. The spike is caused by hopelessness. Obama was supposed to deliver hope: Instead he has delivered despair.


14 posted on 03/29/2009 10:32:44 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: headstamp 2

There’s a similar “copycat effect” with news coverage of suicides.


142 posted on 03/29/2009 7:23:13 PM PDT by George Smiley (They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. They're eating it straight out of the packet.)
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To: headstamp 2

There’s a similar “copycat effect” with news coverage of suicides.


143 posted on 03/29/2009 7:23:14 PM PDT by George Smiley (They're not drinking the Kool-Aid any more. They're eating it straight out of the packet.)
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