Officials watch for copycat killings after massacre


	Officials watch for copycat killings after massacre

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4-18-2007 5:51 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f923965b-4f0d-4345-a4f3-ab784a934c61/65125E71-87D4-498B-80E7-15B6F9249CB0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070417/copycat_threats_070417/20070417?hub=TopStories" href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070417/copycat_threats_070417/20070417?hub=TopStories" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ctv.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070417/copycat_threats_070417/20070417?hub=TopStories"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ctv.ca/img/C3759670-0C1B-4F74-B173-8E4E3254DA82" alt="Police searched Cardinal Carter Secondary School in Leamington, Ont. twice after separate bomb threats, but found nothing.  (Bruno Gerado for CTV.ca)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070417/copycat_threats_070417/20070417?hub=TopStories">Officials are on alert for possible copycat killings in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy. In Canada, police closed down an Ont. school after bomb threats, while two teenagers were arrested for a suspected prank in Montreal.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070417/copycat_threats_070417/20070417?hub=TopStories"><P>"This particular way of acting out may be increasing," Sandra Robinson, a professor of human behaviour at the University of British Columbia, told CTV News. </p> <P></p> <P>Robinson has written about the phenomenon and said shootings often occur in clusters.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070417/copycat_threats_070417/20070417?hub=TopStories">"There's a greater potential for influencing people who are already on the edge and already fantasizing about following in the footsteps of (the gunman)."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070417/copycat_threats_070417/20070417?hub=TopStories">The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has a threat assessment on school shootings, and the document warns of potential copycat behaviour following such killings.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/65125E71-87D4-498B-80E7-15B6F9249CB0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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