Revenge List of Employers

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If only someone else in public had a concealed weapon.

Setting gun issues aside, what bothers me about this story in Alabama is the fact that this guy got good grades in school and somehow still ended up working at a food processing plant. I'm just speculating, but perhaps his actions are a result of the modern American economic reality. Perhaps he thought there was more to life and went nuts when he found out that employment in modern America is not that much better than serfdom and/or exploitative share-cropping. Work in the factory and then pay the tax-man or be thrown into the dungeon. Work in the factory and then get your devalued dollars eaten up by policies set up to make you lose. Get good grades, stay reasonably well behaved, end up in a dead-end job in a plant where the intellect is not exercised and go nuts.

This guy's story could've been any angry, gun-toting, economically-deprived intellectual's story. Who says Atlas has to shrug? He could get a gun and kill everyone, too. The worrying aspect of this theory I've presented is that it could become more and more common as the economy deteriorates.

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