There was considerable discussion of this thesis on the Atlanta shooting thread, Although we never reached a consensus, we did agree that the shooting thread wasn't the time or the place to debate this. Here's a place. Anyone got the time? Two camps, the correct one - mine- says that Words are far deadlier than gunpowder. This camp can site multiple examples, From the qu'ran to to the Communist Manifesto. Example: The Supremes wrote some words in 1963, that seeing a suspect in restraints prejudices a jury. These words are a direct root cause of the recent deaths in Atlanta....