Posted on 06/18/2015 3:19:41 PM PDT by PROCON
(CNN)—It looks like it has happened again. A young male has allegedly killed. In this case it is nine people at a church in South Carolina. Anyone who is paying attention hears the news and thinks, "Here we go again." But why? After spending 20 years interviewing killers as a psychological expert witness in murder cases I have some thoughts about this.
Males are disproportionately over-represented in the ranks of America's killers -- about 90%, in fact. Why is that? Some of it appears to lie in the biological vulnerability of males. About 30% of males (versus 9% of females) have a form of the MAOA gene that impairs their ability to deal effectively and pro-socially with stressful situations (like living in an abusive family). Thus, the vast majority of males who have this genetic vulnerability and who live in abusive families end up engaging in a chronic pattern of aggression, bad behavior, acting out and violating the rights of others by the time they are 10 years old.
It's a childhood pattern that is often the gateway to seriously violent delinquency and perhaps murder. This genetic vulnerability is part of a larger pattern for males. But this is only a part, perhaps a small part, of the larger story.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Blahblahblah*psychobabble*blahblahlahblah*psychobabble*blahblagblah*morepsychobabble*blah....
Wait, wait......here it comes.....
"Sadly, there is a long tradition of killing black people in America that resonates across the decades and centuries. This extends from the thousands lynched in the South until well into the 1960s, to the repeated shooting of unarmed black boys and men by police and civilians in recent years."
WAIT....he's not done here.........
"Finally, of course, there is the matter of arming troubled young males with lethal weapons. It is the access to guns that makes young males so dangerous, especially when they are troubled, angry, or somehow "crazy." It is guns that make American suicide attempts so deadly (85% lethal vs. 10% for pills). It is guns that make domestic disputes so dangerous. It is guns that make cop-civilian confrontations so deadly. And it is access to guns that means racist ideologies in the heads of troubled young males too often leads to tragic ends like the nine dead bodies in a church in South Carolina, because "guns don't kill people; people with guns kill people."
Why are so many killers black?
Raciss....
Daddy issues, pure and simple.
Simple. Just outlaw guns. And young males.
You missed the subtext that every pregnant mother needs to have her unborn baby tested for the MAOA gene and if her baby has it then it should be aborted because....
...wait for it...
...for the children!
According to the US Department of Justice, blacks accounted for 52.5% of homicide offenders from 1980 to 2008, with whites 45.3% and “Other” 2.2%. The offending rate for blacks was almost 8 times higher than whites, and the victim rate 6 times higher. Most homicides were intraracial, with 84% of white victims killed by whites, and 93% of black victims killed by blacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States#Homicide
I didn’t miss it, it was in the 2nd balhblah*psychobabble*blah... Line :-)
More importantly: Why is the media so predictable?
I wonder if that 45.3% of whites includes hispanics.
Guess he has never read the word.. Japan.
Who armed him? Do we know that yet? Did some loony parent have guns hanging around the house, unsecured, or did he purchase a gun illegally?
Maybe CNN can do a story speculating as to why American women have killed more than 50 million of their own children sine 1973. And they didn’t even use guns!
Of course.
I read a post earlier which said Dad gave him the gun. Remains to be verified.
Dad gave him the gun. What can one say?
If even one of those nine people had had a concealed weapon and was trained to use it, I wonder how many would have survived?
Funny, I wonder how “pro-choice” the left would be if people could abort the unborn for being gay?
You missed my point. There are screwballs, and then there are guys who go on killing sprees wearing My Little Pony t-shirts. Those are grade A screwballs.
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