Michael Li

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ASA 02 Section 1

10/18/15

Blog week 5

                This week I decided to blog about the article “Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence” which describes the types of killers he believes are found in mass murders. Reading this piece was very troubling especially when the descriptions of the enjoyment the killers achieved. All the mass murders were linked back to something deeply rooted in them such as racism, a troubled military service, male abuse, etc. The most common root between all mentioned killers were a prior military experience that had a difficult transition to civilian life. Transition from military service to civilian life is known to be very difficult for some service members which has created the development for many programs to help adapting back to normal everyday life.  My question is whether or not there is a correlation between the number of crimes caused by ex-military and enrollment of soldiers into these programs.