Would legalized prositution prevent most spree shootings?

[Fresneck Harnizos]

This is why a vibrant, legal, safe, accessable, and reasonably priced prostitution industry would defuse nearly all such killing sprees.

If we create a society in which the 10-20% of men who are 'spare' - who are not wanted - have no options, they will explode, lash out. 

[Lief 🗽]

Studies have shown that legalizing prostitution leads to a decrease in rapes committed (and the inverse, outlawing prostitution leading to an increase, also occurs), and it makes sense that removing the organized crime element and replacing it with legal and regulated brothels would lead to some decrease in crime as well. I'm not sure what impact it would have on spree shootings.

[dead0man]

"most" spree shootings?  No, that's obviously stupid.

Some?  maybe, eventually.



But it should be legal anyway.

[Vosem]

That's not the point of legalizing prostitution.

[Oak Hills]

Of course it wouldn't.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

This is why a vibrant, legal, safe, accessable, and reasonably priced prostitution industry would defuse nearly all such killing sprees.

If we create a society in which the 10-20% of men who are 'spare' - who are not wanted - have no options, they will explode, lash out. 

Ok dude, to dig his quote up you've been here for a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time.  Though some of his stuff is timeless.

[Lambsbread]

I don't see the correlation, but whatever floats you guys' boat.

[minionofmidas]

I say we cut out the middleman and just legalize all spree shootings.

[fezzyfestoon]

I don't see the correlation, but whatever floats you guys' boat.

You will

[Person Man]

I voted no, but it would probably help a little or at least wouldn't hurt. But I don't think that's the issue. The issue is that ALL sodomy laws between consenting competent adults are wastes of police time, wastes of local and state taxpayer's money and treat citizens like children.

[DemPGH]

All sounds a bit too Freudian for me.

However, and I could find citations if anyone wanted them, a number of studies have shown that there is a noticeable uptick in violence in societies that are increasingly religious and fundamentalist. There could be a connection there, but in America's case I think it's more complex than any one single thing or factor.

[McGovern]

Nope.