The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Support your local suicide hotline

    By jollyroger on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 11:30am |

    It is perhaps easy to overlook that the final death in Newtown was that of the shooter.

     

    Don't get me wrong--I would have cheerfully supported snuffing this piece of shit preemptively were it possible, even though I passionately oppose the death penalty after a crime has occurred.

     

    That said, inasmuch as  the staggering majority of mass killings are  "murder-suicides"  it seems to me that a relatively accessible "mental health" amelioration of our  plight would be more adequate funding and personning of suicide prevention hot lines.

     

    Pulling numbers from my research dept (excuse me while I reach discreetly around to my ass...) a simple statistical analysis would seem to dictate that if you prevent 1000 suicides you probably prevent at least one of these nightmarish episodes.

     

    If you quibble with the proportions, feel free to add as many orders of magnitude as you deem necessary-the logical outcome is the same.

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    I think I broke the site again...this doesn't come up on the left side...Let's see if the comment trips the right column.


    by jollyroger on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 11:38am