White males are responsible for the majority of mass shootings in the US - but why do they resort to such terrible violence? To read more on this story, click here:
In July, FBI director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee:"I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence, but it does include other things as well."
Professor David Wilson, a criminologist at Birmingham City University, said:"Characteristics of USA school shooters? Male; used legally owned firearms - usually semi-automatic weapons; were ex students of the school they targeted." "When the husband or father loses their job or goes through a divorce separation they are thrown out of the home."Their status is tied up in their occupation so they seem to suffer more psychologically, which seems to propel them in that way."Men also have unequal access to guns and training in using weapons like handguns and rifles.
"In Florida, we have reports of the gunman's adoption and his depression, but that is an abstraction.Some of the worst mass shootings in schools in recent years include the Parkland shooting in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Sandy Hook massacre and the Isla Vista shooting. Adam Lanza, 20, stole his mother's guns after shooting and killing her at their home in Newtown, Connecticut on 14 December 2012.He killed 20 children, six adults and himself within 11 minutes.Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attacked Columbine High School in Colorado on 20 April 1999.
Mass shootings have followed a pattern in recent years when carried out by a man, which tends to focus around threats to their masculinity.
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