Men hurt women. It is a fact. It is an epidemic. It is a public health catastrophe. It is normal.
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The news station asked the student for information, to which the student replied that he had their station on and was trying to figure out what was happening himself.
Proactivity needs to extend also to the traumas in early life that are common to so many mass shooters. Those early exposures to violence need addressing when they happen with ready access to social services and high-quality, affordable mental health treatment in the community.
I cut a piece of Alyssa’s hair off because I didn’t want the killer to take everything from me.
They surveyed more than 600 young adults and asked about firearm possession as well as symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, PTSD, and other mental illness.
Inadequate people have to try and feel worthy, and one way to feel worthy is to find someone else unworthy or inferior.
You will undoubtedly notice that I am confining myself here to characterizations of men. By definition, this is sexist, but by definition, men are the problem.
They reach a point in their lives where they feel no one is paying attention to them. So they take it upon themselves to perpetrate this kind of crime.
Mass murderers are different from serial ones. Those around him thought of him as weird or strange.
These killers are such inadequate people, such losers, that they know they cannot get away and won't give others the satisfaction of controlling them or bringing them to justice.
His anger is understandable, but his actions are not justifiable — and that difference is absolutely crucial.
As a physician who rushed too many gunshot victims to the operating room, I want to never again have another child ask me if she’s going to die.
So far in 2018, a member of the military has been about 40 times as likely to be killed as someone is to die in a school shooting, including Keller’s revised figures.
Would the U.S. be able to partially prevent violent incidents like mass shooting if signs of teen dating violence, especially violence against women, was taken more seriously?
A customer sipping coffee registered as a threat. Was he taking her picture?
Culture, like most human actions and interactions, exists as a constant, chaotic series of feedback loops.
The truth is that in addition to not protecting women, we are failing boys: Failing to raise them to believe they can be men without inflicting pain on others, failing to teach them that they are not entitled to women’s sexual attention and failing to allow them an outlet for understandable human fe…
God bless everyone, you think about it, what would happen, but until it happens to you, you can’t say. I’ve never been more scared in my entire life. Live every single day the happiest you can be. Pray for everyone.
Not every shooting is connected to mental health. Some people are simply malicious... Every shooting is connected to, by definition, one specific thing... I’ll give you a hint- it exists for the sole purpose of killing.
At a gun range, a common used target is this. Many people would say that they go to the range to let out anger. How come that anger is let out on a target that is shaped like a human? Because guns are used & made for one purpose only: killing.