Would-Be Killers, Click Here for Help [TheDailyBeast.com]

Samantha Sangenito 10/16/154:00 AM

A Yale researcher has launched an online resource for would-be mass shooters—prompted by his own brush with the impulse to kill.

As a teenager seeking revenge, he once came close to murder. Now this Yale researcher wants to target potential killers before they go too far.

James Kimmel Jr., a psychiatry lecturer, launched a website to convince people not to act on their homicidal urges, after a student shooter massacred 10 people at an Oregon community college this month.

The site, SavingCain.org, suggests that would-be murderers’ desires for revenge could be biological—and as addictive as narcotics. Kimmel said he wants to save lives by tilting the national conversation beyond gun control to “motive control.”

[For more of this story, written by Kate Briquelet, go to http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...k-here-for-help.html]

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