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Originally Posted by jman5581
I don't think it has as much to do with Missouri as it does the zombie mentality of certain sects of society at large... one could cite many similar incidents in many other states, I'm certain of that.
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J,
My awareness of it may be heightened, but I believe you'd be hard-pressed to find this happening elsewhere as often as it's happened in Missouri. There is some kind of pronounced sense of 'justice in our own hands' mentality at play here. It may go back to the Civil War era in Missouri, and Kansas, where they had tremendous bloodshed and vigilantism. I think there is a developmental/societal effect involved.
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