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Mattforclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-10-04 03:17 PM
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4. It is a bit more complicated than that...
He says (basically) that they lessen the psychological barrier to killing and make it easier to kill reflexively.
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  -I've got to recommend Lt. Col. Dave Grossman's book "On Killing" dawgman  Jan-10-04 02:49 PM   #0 
  - "Natural aversion"?  Baclava   Jan-10-04 03:03 PM   #1 
  - Shooting someone in the face from 2 feet away  Mattforclark   Jan-10-04 03:28 PM   #5 
  - They're called republicans.  bandera   Jan-10-04 04:30 PM   #10 
  - Isnt he that quack who...  TexasMexican   Jan-10-04 03:10 PM   #2 
  - It is a bit more complicated than that...  Mattforclark   Jan-10-04 03:17 PM   #4 
  - One of his premises is that the violence of our culture is symptomatic  dawgman   Jan-10-04 03:38 PM   #6 
  - Me too, it is an excellent book.  Mattforclark   Jan-10-04 03:15 PM   #3 
  - Just the idea that 80 to 85 percent of grunts WON'T shoot  dawgman   Jan-10-04 03:50 PM   #7 
  - I haven't read the book,  bpcmxr   Jan-10-04 04:21 PM   #8 
  - Thank you. I have actually been thinking about changing it to a quote fro  dawgman   Jan-10-04 04:25 PM   #9 
  - GREAT book!  dbt   Jan-10-04 04:58 PM   #11 
 

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