Domestic Violence is the 'Canary in the Coal Mine' for Mass Shootings

[Hypoxia]

Domestic Violence is the 'Canary in the Coal Mine' for Mass Shootings

We may never know why a shooter opens fire on a church full of worshipers, or a school full of kids, or a movie theater full of couples. But when it happens, a familiar pattern tends to emerge. The shooter is almost always male, and usually white. He has access to firearms. And often he has a history of domestic violence or violence against women.

According to an analysis by Everytown for Gun Safety, which advocates gun-control measures, 54% of mass shootings between 2009 and 2016 — incidents in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are killed with a firearm — involved domestic or family violence. That just counts shootings in which the victims included an intimate partner or family member; it doesn’t account for shooters who have domestic violence charges in their past, then go on to shoot up a crowd of strangers.

You're most likely to be murdered by someone you know.

 

[oggbashan]

There has been a correlation made in the UK between people who abuse animals and later commit domestic violence.

The advice? Don't marry anyone who kicks their (or your) dog or cat.

 

[JawnKarTurr]

You mean every town to deprive people of their gun rights has figured out that someone who is capable of abusing or killing someone close to them is able to do that to strangers....shocking. Also, most people already know people murder people they're close too. That's why mass shootings are so shocking they're rare.

It would be a waste of time bringing up the host of laws we already have in place, and how a government error let that creep get weapons.


Hypoxia it's not like you really care about the victims though. They probably voted for Trump.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

2017 so far, we have had 152 mass shootings

November 6, 2017

Billionaires and mutli- national corporations are ignoring the fact that their labor pool consists of human beings.


Human beings have limitations, and breaking points.

Robots break down, but they do not deliberately massacre other robots.

This person has taken the time and trouble to write about possible reasons a man might resorts to mass murders.



American Hyper-Capitalism Breeds the Lonely, Alienated Men Who Become Mass Killers


Capitalists stopped worrying about living, no less family, wages, safety standards, benefits, or ecological safety measures. Where once capitalist profit-seeking produced a family wage, post-1970s profit-seeking took it away.

Americans do not have a mass party or organized voice to help people understand that capitalist profiteering motivated those who took their family wages and jobs. Many are thus left with hatred for other people. That seldom works to overcome or end loneliness.


What we need in order to stop the carnage of mass shootings is a social movement that articulates a social analysis of America's problems and is unafraid to put the capitalist system at the core of those problems. We also need a social movement committed to social changes that include going beyond the capitalist system. If people could join together, face that their lives are plundered in order for capitalists to increase profit, and face that gender stereotypes distort our shared humanity, then together we can change the conditions of despair, rage, and loneliness that generate mass shootings


https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-p...-lonely-alienated-men-who-become-mass-killers

Devin Kelly

Why did he avoid medical care for a head injury ? His parents were wealthy enough to help him.


Kelly was involved in a motorcycle crash that, he wrote on Facebook, left him with neck and head pain up until his final days. He had been riding a 2009 Harley Davidson down a four-lane county road in New Braunfels when 91-year-old Bessie Mulhollan pulled her Buick out in front of him, according to police records.

She was pulling out of a parking lot and didn’t see him,” said Beth Hawes Mulhollan, the woman’s daughter-in-law, who was not present for the accident but was told about it later by Bessie, who died in 2015. “He ended up running right into the side of her car.”

Police records say Kelley was treated at the scene of the crash but that he declined further medical aid.


Just days before the shooting rampage, Kelley posted messages on Facebook complaining about lingering neck pain from the crash.

In another post, the day before the shooting, he added: “Damn,” with a frowning emoticon. “My heads been hurting for 3 days now.”

On the morning of the shooting, he posted: “I’m a wreck.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...cs-in-church-massacre/?utm_term=.9c67950dd6be

An autopsy of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez's brain revealed that the athlete had a severe form of the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) when he died in April. CTE is a degenerative brain condition that has been found in the brains of professional football players and boxers, according to news reports.



The analysis of Hernandez's brain was particularly striking; in a press release, his family's lawyer announced that Hernandez had "the most severe case they had ever seen in someone of Aaron's age." (Hernandez was 27 when he committed suicide while serving a life sentence in prison for murder.) In fact, Hernandez's CTE had progressed to the level that doctors might expect to see in a 60-year-old, according to the The New York Times.



CTE is not the same as a concussion.

Because it's so difficult to study CTE, researchers don't yet know what causes it. Although there's a link between CTE and frequent blows to the head, that link isn't as clear-cut as it is with a concussion.

"Concussion is a reversible brain injury that happens after a head injury," Manning told Live Science. "CTE is a neurodegenerative disease, like Alzheimer's dementia, that we do not yet know the cause for."

Concussions are a type of traumatic brain injury that is caused when the brain forcefully bounces against the skull, according to the Mayo Clinic. Usually, the cerebrospinal fluid in a person's skull cushions the brain from crashing into the skull, but a strong blow to the head or violent shaking can cause the brain to hit the skull, resulting in an acute injury, the Mayo Clinic says.

CTE, however, is totally different. Instead of a single injury, it's a degenerative neurological condition, meaning that it gets worse over time, Manning said. The only common threads in these cases are that they involve brain damage and are commonly seen in contact sports like boxing and U.S. football.

CTE has a wide range of symptoms.

People with CTE can have a wide range of emotional, cognitive and physical symptoms, depending on what parts of their brains are affected and the extent to which the CTE has developed, according to a 2012 study published in the journal Brain Imaging and Behavior.

CTE can cause the cognitive impairments, memory loss and depression associated with other forms of dementia, according to the Mayo Clinic. People with CTE can also become more aggressive, impulsive or prone to substance abuse. In addition, the condition has been linked symptoms including difficulty with balance and swallowing, as well as suicidal behavior.


https://www.livescience.com/60515-aaron-hernandez-facts-about-cte.html

gsgs comment- So many junctures along his path, he should have received help. It was not as if he were poor, and could not access resources. Is it a Texas thing ? Women are dying in Texas because of lack of birth centered care. They closed all the Planned Parenthood centers.