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kw5kw wrote:What's a 'rave'?

A rave is a gathering of young people, usually loosely organized, not supervised by responible adults, lacking insurance, permits, and other sorts of things normally required for such assemblies. The recreational use of drugs is a given.

These gatherings are frequent on South Padre Island and Bolivar Peninsula, sometimes attended by crowds exceeding 10,000 people. They have been the scene of gang rapes, homicides, melees, and preventable deaths such as drowning while intoxicated.

- Jim

Yeppers.

There are gatherings that attract criminals, shady characters, drug abusers, and lunatics. Raves are high on the list. I would add sex clubs, rough bars, and every illegal venue, like gambling places, dog fights, and cock fights.

It just ain't decent.

- Jim

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/us/25fox.html

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This is one of the recurring nightmares: random, violent crime erupting without notice.

In Seattle, in March of this year, a man attending a rave produced a weapon and killed six people. When police arrived, he killed himself.

The perpetrator had one charge of criminal mischief with a firearm on his record, but no violent crimes against people and no felonies.

An investigator eventually found a discarded note in which the perpetrator wrote, "I can't let them get away with what they're doing, ... I hate this world of sex they are striving to make."

Shades of the Kileen massacre, a deranged killer whose mind is boiling, with no one suspecting trouble.

There is a practical lesson in this. Anyone care to guess what I'm thinking?

- Jim