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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (337201)5/10/2007 11:43:41 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1574854
 
Not all that dubious. And there is no gaurentee of escalation. Sometimes drawing a gun deescalates the situation. Thats much more likely if the other person was not armed with a gun (relying on a knife or just being bigger, and thinking you where unarmed and they could intimidate you.

"It can be a distant acquaintance, or a disgruntled former coworker or subordinate. It can be a stalker"

Sure, it could be. And those are rare enough that they make national news.

Its not all that rare, and many of these situations don't make national news. Mass slayings do, but disgruntled former employees don't always go for shooting up the whole workplace. Murders of single individuals don't usually make national headlines unless the either the killer or the victim was famous.

By you theory, that shouldn't be the case.

Only if it was the only factor, and I've never said it was.
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