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To: Cogito who wrote (36619)	4/21/2007 8:58:48 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541931

Thanks for the article recommendation, Allen. I was unaware of the Australia argument.

To: Cogito who wrote (36619)	4/21/2007 9:29:09 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 541931

Wasn't that an interesting article? Ultimately, it is impossible to attribute the rise in mass shootings to any single cause. The crimes only account for a tiny fraction of homicides. Iktomi and I were talking about the meaning of running amok earlier today. She had come across it somewhere, and we were talking about the perspective it offered in terms of human behavior. Cho was not an anomaly or a product entirely of our society. The factors that caused his "running amok" may be couched in modern terms, but are probably not much different in actual stressors from those which set off people hundreds of years ago. Captain James Cook, in his account of his travels in that part of the world - Voyages, 1772, gives an explicit definition of 'run amok': "To run amock is to get drunk with opium... to sally forth from the house, kill the person or persons supposed to have injured the Amock, and any other person that attempts to impede his passage."