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#92231 - 04/24/07 06:06 AM Re: Is work life stressful that drive people to shoot [Re: picard120]
OldBaldGuy Offline
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Let's see. I was a peace office for 30+ years, my ex (the bad one), in addition to other jobs, was a phone company operator, a very stressful job. My wife (the good one) was a law enforcement dispatcher for 30+ years, a VERY stressful job, and in addition was once married to a wife beater, was kidnapped and raped (along with her 15 year old daughter) by an armed serial rapist, my daughter and her husband are both postal workers, and NONE of us has ever gone nutso and started blasting friends or coworkers. So no, I don't think so. I think it is upbringing more than anything...
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#92237 - 04/24/07 06:20 AM Re: Is work life stressful that drive people to shoot [Re: OldBaldGuy]
benjammin Offline
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Registered: 02/06/04
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Loc: Anchorage AK
Sounds right to me.

Maybe it is the way our society, in an attempt to improve the quality of life for all, allowed the weak/lazy to resist developing the necessary survival skills so that they can adapt to the rigors of real life, and the subsequent frustration and pain once they are forced to deal with it causes them to lash out, much the same as what happens when dogs go feral after their owners give up on them and turn them loose at the outskirts of town.

Kinda like what happens when little Johnny from the burbs gets 2 years for drug trafficking, and comes out of prison a real criminal. Never mind that it was his own fault that got him in trouble, after what happens to him inside, when he gets out it is payback time.
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