They are distractions from what is right in front of you and me and the victims of tomorrow’s shooting: people who need help. And while we’re all fighting over whose pet cause is more right and more true and more noble, there’s likely another young man out there, maybe suicidally depressed, maybe paranoid and delusional, maybe a psychopath, and he’s researching guns and bombs and mapping out schools and recording videos and thinking every day about the anger and hate he feels for this world.

And no one is paying attention to him.

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Neil Halloran (@neilhalloran) tweeted at 3:55 PM on Wed, Dec 21, 2016:
The numbers are so dramatic here. Can the answer (and mistake) re @CureViolence be this obvious?
https://t.co/18t22pN7rs
h/t @sapinker https://t.co/3yUDYWBdjg
(https://twitter.com/neilhalloran/status/811706611567706112?s=03)

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from Gabor Maté‘s when body says no

137

beyond their functions of digestion and absorption, the intestines are also one of the body’s major barriers to invasion.. whatever is in the gut is simply passing thru and still belongs to the external world.. only after penetrating the bowel lining do substances and organisms enter the body proper.. since this protective function of the gut tissue is critical to well-being, it is generously supplied with its own local immune system, one that works in coordination with the body’s general immune defences..

inflammation is an ingenious process invoked by the body to isolate and destroy hostile organisms or noxious particles.. to facil defensive function the lining.. of bowel is in a ‘state of perpetually controlled or orchestrated inflammation’ that is its normal state in healthy people..

the powerful destructive forces of the immune apparatus must be minutely regulated and kept in such a balance that they are able to carry out their policing duties w/o harming the delicate body tissues they are charged w defending..

cure violence

some substance promote inflammation; others inhibit it. if the balance is upset, disease can result..

a diminished capacity by the gut to mount an inflammatory response would invite life-threatening infections.. an inability to dampen inflammation exposes gut tissue to self-injury..

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structural violence

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Dr. Gary Slutkin (@GSlutkin) tweeted at 6:59 AM on Fri, Jan 12, 2018:
Research from University of California on cities investing in @CureViolence. https://t.co/IfXsr1ah3H
(https://twitter.com/GSlutkin/status/951815961434296322?s=03)

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Contagious confused humans doing more damage.
#KabulAttack
#Afganistan https://t.co/IhLEbE42PE

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/GSlutkin/status/957388649267638273

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Tackling trauma early can reduce violent crime https://t.co/LUXo5JC4B5

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/CureViolence/status/1021531681650561029

Your startling assertion that we can cut violent crime by 50 per cent by tackling childhood trauma should be essential reading for anyone who cares about the scourge of youth violence in London.

maté trauma law

we can do better..

maté basic needs law via 2 convos.. as infra

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from Eric Klinenberg‘s palaces for the people

69

equally powerful, he said, is that there was no evidence that the violence has simply shifted to nearby places: the declines were real.. moreover, these reduction lasted from one to nearly four years, making the benefit far more sustainable than those in other crime reduction programs..

earlier had failed.. w’when i started at penn, we had been working hard to reduce gun crime in philly.. we had the *interrupters, the social workers, the community leaders. some of them were amazing and we had some successes. but they were always short lived. they lasted only as long as we could keep the people there in the hood.. we wanted a bigger impact and one that would continue after we left’ – branas

*cure violence

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This violence like all violence is unnecessary and a sign of what?

Violence is an epidemic health issue and needs to be treated.

#Syria #Turkey #Kurds https://t.co/OsShRNzLPk

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/GSlutkin/status/1182070825844912134

can only be truly treated outside of the realms of our blinding/numbing structural violence

let’s go there

ie: 2 convers as infra via tech as it could be..

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et al

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