Finding The Mass Murderers

What is missing from this essay, is one element that indicates a high risk of violence, i.e., persons who take psychiatric drugs. Even the drug-industry-controlled FDA requires a warning label on those violence-causing drugs. But again here is a prominent media outlet which is clueless of the causes of much violence in contemporary society. Only purveyors of those drugs are quoted in this essay. When will journalists learn? Or is the drug industry lobby strong enough to censor all references to their dangerous chemicals? The idea that only some people are capable of mass murder shows a lack of common sense. All humans are capable of such acts. It takes the essential conditions that make one violent. One way to prevent them is to make everyone aware of their own depraved capabilities. Of course politicians and journalists prefer the fantasy that "you are a nice person" or "you are a good person" and would not harm a fly unless it was open. But that shows a lack of understanding of human nature. It is always helpful to "keep the herd bewildered" (as Noam Chomsky describes propaganda in journalism).

[From article]
"We'll never be able to predict which individual, out of many, will carry out an act of targeted violence," says J. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist and professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California-San Diego.
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Richard S. Adler, a clinical and forensic psychiatrist in Seattle, agreed. "It is exceptionally hard to predict who will be violent. The fact of the matter is I could see you today and you're relatively safe and tomorrow you could be not safe."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20120810loughner-behavior-killings.html

Warning behaviors' sought to stop killings
by Bob Ortega
Aug. 11, 2012 11:00 PM
The Republic
azcentral.com