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‘Dilbert’ cartoonist Scott Adams has a bleak take on our ‘dangerous young man problem’

Scott Adams promotes his book "Dilbert and the Way Of the Weasel," in San Francisco on Oct. 22, 2002.

After the recent mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, cartoonist Scott Adams is speaking out about what he calls the country’s “dangerous young man problem.” And his conclusions — by his own admission — aren’t easy to read.

The “Dilbert” creator also brought the fentanyl overdose epidemic into the mix, less than four years after his own stepson fatally overdosed on that drug.

“The Highland shooting and every Fentanyl overdose death among the young are teaching us the same lesson, and we refuse to learn it. It’s difficult, but I’m qualified

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