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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One more thing: The real thing shooters have in common is not their race, but rather their gender -- we have had virtually no female mass shooters, or women perpetrating gun violence in general.

It's not that women suffer from fewer mental problems; in fact, women are more likely to suffer from depression than men. It's that men are more likely to express extreme despair through harming others, while women are more likely to express it by harming themselves.

Angry young men is really our problem. [/quote]

And almost all of them had a history of violence against women in some way--abuse, harassment, or assault of wives or girlfriends--and they often participate in online fora devoted to men's rights, incels, and other subcultures seething with toxic masculinity (meaning, ideas about masculinity that are based on domination, control, and entitlement, rather than positive ideas about what it means to "be a man.")  The same week as the Santa Fe shooting, there was another mass shooting in Texas--a man shot and killed his kids and his ex-wife's boyfriend, and shot and injured his ex-wife.  These are men who believe that they are entitled to women's romantic and sexual attention, and that they are entitled to hurt others when they do not get it.  This stew of resentment and entitlement is literally killing people.  [/quote]

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