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Key example here: there's a variant of a gene called MAO-A, and if you have that variant, you are far more likely to commit antisocial violence if, and only if, you were abused as a child.
And if, for example, they were nomadic pastoralists, they were pastoralists, people living in deserts or grasslands with their herds of camels, cows, goats, odds are they would have invented what's called a culture of honor filled with warrior classes, retributive violence, clan vendettas, and amazingly, centuries later, that would still be influencing the values with which you were raised.
Or the police officer who said that understanding the emotional dynamic between people in a painting helped him to read body language at a domestic violence crime scene, and it enabled him to think twice before drawing and firing his weapon.
Domestic violence incidents were down, as were mental health complaints.
137 is more than gun violence, cigarette smoking and HIV combined, every day.
TMD: And I'll bring us back to this moment and why it's so important for my dear, dear friend Vanessa and I. It's because it's not always easy for us, and in fact, we have both seen really, really dark days, from the hate speech to the summer of police brutality and violence that we saw last year, to even losing one of our walkers, Sandy Bland, who died in police custody.
And we even wrote a blog that almost burnt the house down among some of our members, unfortunately, when we talked about the fact that even Donald Trump has free speech rights as president, and an effort to hold him accountable for incitement of violence at his marches or his rallies is unconstitutional and un-American.
See, gun violence is just a visible display of a lot of underlying traumas.
Over the past two months, I've lost two friends to gun violence, both innocent bystanders.
I remember in junior high school - it was actually right after the first World Trade Center bombing, and it was a very confusing time for me for a bunch of reasons, but in particular because it was the first time my religion was made synonymous with violence in such a public way.
Last year, every minute, 24 more people were displaced from their homes by conflict, violence and persecution: another chemical weapon attack in Syria, the Taliban on the rampage in Afghanistan, girls driven from their school in northeast Nigeria by Boko Haram.
Here are the facts: 65 million people displaced from their homes by violence and persecution last year.
Right now, two billion people live in conditions of fragility, conflict, violence, and by 2030, more than 60 percent of the world's poor will live in these situations of fragility, conflict and violence.
I was brought up in the 1970s near Wembley with Asian, English, Caribbean, Irish families living in our street, and the neo-Nazi National Front was massive then with regular marches and attacks on us and a permanent threat and often a frequent reality of violence against us on the streets, in our homes, typically by neo-Nazis and other racists.
They've been involved for decades in large-scale mass violence against minorities.
As early as childhood, emotional neglect, exposure to violence, bullying and racism all impact your telomeres, and the effects are long-term.
But people, like cities, are resilient, and no amount of legislation or intimidation or violence can fully eliminate any of us.
And for some it was simply to build neighborhood solidarity in advance of feared election violence.
Between crack, AIDS, gang violence, mass incarceration, gentrification, police shootings, black people have more than enough reasons to stay up at night.
Keep in mind, conversations stop violence, conversations start countries, they build bridges, and when the chips are down, conversations are the last tools that humans use before they pick up their guns.
We meet the community right where they are, and we've done everything from divert gang violence in real time to help find people jobs to mentoring homeless youth.
And the reason why we needed to do this is because there was a severe lack of trust in the black community due to the violence of the crack era.
I wanted to open those gates for the families that have to call themselves the victims of gun violence.
And we've seen cases of sexual violence and assault, of extreme forms of abuse and exploitation.
And it's legitimate monopoly of means of violence, administrative control, management of public finances, investment in human capital, provision of citizenship rights, provision of infrastructure, management of the tangible and intangible assets of the state through regulation, creation of the market, international agreements, including public borrowing, and then, most importantly, rule of law.
So, when violence erupts in a country like Afghanistan, it's because of that legacy.
So, it's about choosing the parts of the Bible about compassion, about tolerance, about loving your neighbor, as opposed to the parts about homosexuality is a sin, or intolerance, or violence, which are very much in the Bible as well.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
If you ask women what they fear the most in response to their anger, they don't say violence.
She traveled to Europe, where she rallied European outrage against racial violence in the American South in hopes that the US government and public would follow their example.
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