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Law Practice

Jan. 24, 2013

Another look at the source of rampage violence

Treat this alternative view of rampage violence as a hypothetical. What if rampage violence is the result of "narrative failure?"

Timothy A. Tosta

Arent Fox LLP

Email: tim.tosta@arentfox.com

There is an exercise, in our training as Zen Hospice Project (ZHP) volunteers, in which everyone is handed a set of three to four photographs of deceased residents and asked a question to consider, as you look into their faces. Then, we each pass our photos around the circle to another volunteer as we, in turn, receive new ones. The exercise is unsettling as you look into the faces of those who died of AIDS, insidious cancers, cirrhosis of the liver, emphysema, congestive heart failure,...

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