Reply #24: This has nothing to do with politics [View All]

[Psephos]

I hate it when people try to bend stories like this to fit some political dogma. Here on DU it's all fundie-jeebus-repressive-evil GOP's fault. I guarantee that over on the freeper site they're blaming it all on donks.

Clue: politics is a religion. Subject to the same limitations. I.e., don't use it as the universal lens through which to view the world. In many cases, it's the wrong tool for the job.

This is a story about an unstable kid, possibly with unstable parents, too. Unless you are proud to be ignorant of history, then you know stuff like this is not limited to modern times. We carry a lot of violence in our genes, a biological inheritance from when people had to club each other if they wanted a chunk of the antelope carcass.

Try reading something like Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York or Tyler Anbinder's Five Points for can't-put-it-down perspectives of 19th Century New York. Riveting, and eye-opening.

Peace.