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To: coug who wrote (47886)	7/29/1999 11:16:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

The best way to have prevented the Atlanta incident, IMO, was to have nailed and jailed Barton for murdering his first wife and his mother-in-law back in 1994. Curious; the police seem to have been sure he did it, but there was never an arrest. Edit: I thought it was PC to do the opposite: to make a big fuss over something you don't really give a tinker's damn about. It's like being obliged to cry at funerals --- some people don't think you are really grieving unless they can see the tears.

To: coug who wrote (47886)	7/30/1999 12:58:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't want to compare us to to other societies.. I always felt we had higher standards... Higher than some, lower than others, at least as far as violence is concerned. it is PC and chic to blow off things like this, rather than try to learn the causes and try to prevent them in the future.. Just my evolutionary thoughts. I would agree with Joan; the PC response would be to moan and wail and rend our garments. Satisfying to the one doing the moaning, wouldn't solve much. I'm not convinced that exhaustive discussion and analysis of causes and solutions will help much either. We already know what we will hear. The PC liberals will blame guns, and call for tighter control. The born again crowd will point to generic moral decline, and demand prayer in schools, etc. The law-and-order crowd will point out that the killer had already been a suspect in a murder case; libertarians will remind us that if there was insufficient evidence to convict him there was no way he could have been prevented from killing again. And on, and on; the opinions presented will tell us a great deal about the individuals presenting them, and little or nothing about how such crimes can be prevented.