The Words We Say

No, it doesn't. I wouldn't class mcveigh as "crazy, or in laden, or a whole slew of others. In this particular case... Have you looked at his youtube videos? Listened tot he interviews with his peer group? This lad is not operating ont he same plane with the rest of us.

This attack was political, but it was not democrat versus republican, it was green jovians versus purple saturnians. Seriously seriously disconnected from the world around him. Much more akin to killing John Lennon because "catcher in the rye told me to" than to any of the coherent earth based rationalles that have cropped up in the past for such events.


I would also disagree that it is "a prevailing trait". I know rather few people that have even been in a fight, and shootings over disagreements are really quite rare. Furthermore, if you want to see verbal violence, go visit paris or Kiev. Americans are really quite civil on the world scale.

Unfortunately, it's still violence, and once a boundary gets violated it's easy to grow the conflict.