Elliot Rodger and America’s ongoing masculinity crisis
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/28/elliot_rodger_and_americas_ongoing_masculinity_crisis_partner/
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And there is no doubt these killers, men and women both, are in pain. In fact, thats why I believe the place where these shootings happen is worth looking atthey happen in schools, they happen in the workplace, in churches, at partiesthe very places where the person doing killing has been in the most pain. Sometimes the killer sets out to kill specific people, but other times it is simply a desire to kill whoever is in that particular place. When you are socially isolated you go to kill in the places where people are most social.
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To get these insights I went over the list of all 70 mass killings and looked for the patterns in three areas: 1) the physical locations of the shootings, 2) what we learned about the reasons and motivations for the killings in confessions, notes, interviews or videos, and 3) whom the killer targeted. This is how the numbers play out:
Out of 70 mass shootings (69 men, 1 woman):
Workplace shootings 26
School shootings 12
Targeting women and/or rejection by women 6
Politics, racism, protecting oneself against others 6
Drug or alcohol fueled rage 3
Church and faith 3
Veterans issues 3
Homophobia 2
Child custody 1
Unknown or other 8
Lets look at these patterns a little more closely and compare them to the conversations we have on The Good Men Project.