Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "Here's Why You Shouldn't Shoot Into a Crowded Bar" video.

He probably has high blood-lead levels. No, seriously; exposure to that in childhood lowers IQs and weakens impulse control. It's a major cause of crime, and it's still common in substandard housing.
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@CrampavanAdventures I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'm just mentioning an important issue that not enough people know about.
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@anti-ethniccleansing465 On the contrary; what you wrote is the old propaganda excuse, older by centuries and thoroughly unscientific.
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@anti-ethniccleansing465 Lead is still a big problem in low-quality housing. Where are you doing this research, other than "scientific" racist crank blogs? Do you have any peer-reviewed empirical evidence in major scientific/medical journals?
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Wheeler63 It's still a huge problem in substandard housing. It's not just in paint chips, it's also in metal fixtures. Look up Kevin Drum's work on the subject.
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Don't talk to the police without an attorney.
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@anti-ethniccleansing465 Humor me. Throw out a few names, papers, studies, etc.
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@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd What does that mean?
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@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd I have indeed read it. I apologize for not remembering one expression. In any case, the lead-crime link is enormous.
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@jts12fan What's so funny?
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@jts12fan Who's "parentheses Einstein?" Were they related to Albert Einstein, or Bob "Super Dave Osborne" Einstein? (I'm joking. Commas change so much. "Let's eat Grandma" vs. "Let's eat, Grandma.")
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@kimberlysevastyanenko3798 I don't know about "fault," but lead exposure is a huge cause of crime (among other things); the correlations are extraordinary all over the world. We can certainly assign fault to those who "redline" poor and/or minority people into substandard housing, and the state for doing little/nothing to rectify that, along with inadequate removal of lead from dwellings and neighborhoods.
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@ericjones4604 The Brookings Institution has published papers and such about this, and Kevin Drum at Mother Jones magazine has several excellent, thorough articles on the link. The rise and fall of the emissions of leaded gasoline tracks almost perfectly with the rise and fall of crime rates. As I've written, lead remains in certain environments.
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@jimrustle3321 That book is rehashed pseudo-science; it was known & shown to be that almost as soon as it appeared. Racists have been invoking it for about 30 years to justify their racism.
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@SpaceRanger187 Send whom back to where?
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@bb3585 How so? The evidence is very strong indeed. See the Brookings Institution, Kevin Drum's work for Mother Jones, etc.
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@SpaceRanger187 I'm not at all certain. Don't be coy. Say what you want to say. You can find the words.
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