<p>What accounts for the seeming propensity of members of some groups to go on inexplicable shooting rampages, like yesterday’s 28 year old shooter in Alabama, his 17 year old counterpart in Germany, the Columbine mass murderers, etc? Along with innately superior IQs, might there also be a racially linked gene which determines such behaviors? Surly the stats tell the whole story, and correlation equals causation. I call upon the wisdom of the oracles of CC (who somehow also manage to be among its youngest posters). Tell us Oh Wise Ones. Don’t be modest and claim you dontno;)</p>
<p>I haven’t been keeping track. What race are we talking about?</p>
<p>You missed Virginia Tech.</p>
<p>Cho was, apparently, an “outlier”, BC.;)</p>
<p>How do you feel about the Hutus and the Tutsis? Numbers alone there dwarf the number of aforementioned shooting victims?</p>
<p>Different kinds of killing rampages. No way am I suggesting that a general propensity for savage violence is only the purview of certain races, BC. But specific types of mass killing?..I don’t know…Maybe certain MO’s are genetically determined…:rolleyes:</p>
<p>Dontno would know, though. He’s got the genetics thing all figured out;)</p>
<p>I definitely think genes influence personality. I doubt there is a gene which will be identified as the “mass murderer” gene, but certainly a gene or combination of genes which raises the probability of it, all else being equal.</p>
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The rates of serial killing between blacks & whites are pretty similar.</p>