Toxic masculinity sample, August '19

Sampling some of the violent crimes of white males in August, 2019. In the meantime, I stumbled across zero accounts of physically-violent or sexually-deviant crimes perpetrated by females.

To close out the month, another male unable/unwilling to control his anger:

Seven people were killed and at least 22 injured in the attack, which came four weeks after another gunman killed 22 people in the Texas city of El Paso. The suspected gunman in Saturday's mass shooting in Texas had been fired that morning, and called police and the FBI before his attack, US media report.

Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke reportedly said both the shooter and his company rang 911 after he was fired but he left before police arrived. FBI agent Christopher Combs described his phone statements as "rambling".

"This did not happen because he was fired," said Mr Combs. "He showed up to work enraged." Authorities have named the suspected attacker as [white, American] 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator. Chief Gerke said he had worked at Journey Oilfield Services.

Non-profit research group Gun Violence Archive says nearly 10,000 people have died in US shootings this year. 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49559563

White American males:
Two US mass shootings in 24 hours .

Texas Walmart shooting: El Paso attack 'domestic terrorism' .

Ohio shooting: Sister of gunman among Dayton dead . 

Texas shootings: Random gun attacks leave five dead .

The USA is a wealthy, 3rd-world-society nation.

AND British teen males:
Tate Modern: Boy, six, 'thrown from 10th floor' . 

A six-year-old boy was thrown five floors from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern art gallery in central London, police said. He landed on a fifth floor roof and was taken to hospital by air ambulance after he fell at about 14:45 BST on Sunday. The boy's condition is described as critical.

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, the Met Police said.

Boy admits teenager's murder:
Ellie, a Year 12 pupil at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham, was found with stab wounds at a house in Springfield Drive, Calne, Wiltshire on 3 May. Thomas Griffiths, 17 [whose photo oozes evil], will be sentenced on 8 November over the killing.https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-49508667 .

A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women:

The man who shot nine people to death last weekend in Dayton, Ohio, seethed at female classmates and threatened them with violence.

The man who massacred 49 people in an Orlando nightclub in 2016 beat his wife while she was pregnant, she told authorities.

The man who killed 26 people in a church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., in 2017 had been convicted of domestic violence. His ex-wife said he once told her that he could bury her body where no one would ever find it.

The motivations of men who commit mass shootings are often muddled, complex or unknown. But one common thread that connects many of them — other than access to powerful firearms — is a history of hating women, assaulting wives, girlfriends and female family members, or sharing misogynistic views online, researchers say.

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The fact that mass shootings are almost exclusively perpetrated by men is “missing from the national conversation,” said Gov. Gavin Newsom of California on Monday. “Why does it have to be, why is it men, dominantly, always?” 

[The lonely X chromosome with only a piddly Y for company? Testosterone effect (the monster hormone), in utero and/or post-natal? The fact that more males than females suffer a number of psychological maladaptations, including poor anger control and comparatively delayed emotional maturation? The phenomenon of toxic-authoritarian-male socialization? Homoauthoritarianism? Where I define homoauthoritarianism (updated neologism) as non-erotic or erotic preference for own sex exhibited by power-hungry, authoritarian males who regard women variously as recreational vehicles, brood mares, and/or fit only for domestic servitude. A combination of the above?]

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Connor Betts, 24, murdered nine people in Dayton, including his own sister. ... History of antagonism and threats toward women ... offbeat and awkward; ... dark rages and obsession with guns.

Those rages were frequently directed at female acquaintances. In high school, Mr. Betts made a list threatening violence or sexual violence against its targets, most of whom were girls, classmates have said. His threats were frightening enough that some girls altered their behavior: Try not to attract his attention, but don’t antagonize him, either.

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Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, cited a statistic that belies the sense that mass shootings are usually random: In more than half of all mass shootings in the United States from 2009 to 2017, an intimate partner or family member of the perpetrator was among the victims.

(The study, by the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, defined mass shootings as those in which four or more people died, not including the gunman.)

“Most mass shootings are rooted in domestic violence,” Ms. Watts said. “Most mass shooters have a history of domestic or family violence in their background. It’s an important red flag.”

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Federal law prohibits people convicted of certain domestic violence crimes, and some abusers who are subject to protective orders, from buying or owning guns. But there are many loopholes, and women in relationships who are not married to, do not live with, or have children with their abusers receive no protection. Federal law also does not provide a mechanism for actually removing guns from abusers, and only some states have enacted such procedures.

[No wonder the USA is such a dysfunctional society in comparison to other Western nations. Great? No way!]
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A gunman opened fire on the Al-Noor Islamic Centre, on the outskirts of the capital Oslo, on 19-8-10. One person in the mosque managed to overpower the gunman and was injured in the process. The suspect -- a white Norwegian citizen of "around 20 years old" -- was arrested after the attack.

Police also charged the suspect with murder after his 17-year-old stepsister was found dead in a separate location.

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The suspect appeared "to hold "far-right far-wrong" and "anti-immigrant" views and had expressed sympathy for Vidkun Quisling, the [infamous, traitorous, autocratic] leader of Norway's collaborationist government during the Nazi occupation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49311482 .   

Accrington boy, 16, charged with Lindsay Birbeck's murder .
Boys Brats sentenced for trashing Stamford model railway show .      

The parents of three teenagers who deliberately trashed a model railway exhibition worth £30,000 have been ordered to pay compensation. The Market Deeping Model Railway Club display was damaged at Welland Academy in Stamford, Lincolnshire, on 18 May.

The boys brats, and a fourth defendant, shared a bottle of vodka as part of a "pre-exam night out" before going on a "rampage", a court heard. Lincoln Youth Court heard the youths had deliberately pushed tables over. The court heard the teenagers had decided to play football in the gym and continued despite displays being destroyed. They also threw parts of displays at the wall. After police were called due to the school's alarm system, the teenagers were found in the toilets and arrested.

The four 16-year-old boys brats, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted criminal damage. Three of them were handed 12-month referral orders and their parents were also ordered to pay £500 in compensation. A fourth boy was told he would be sentenced on 2 September.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-49397838 .

Disgusting pornographer, disgusting viewers:

A man has been arrested in Madrid on suspicion of taking upskirt videos of more than 550 women and posting much of the content online. The 53-year-old Colombian man allegedly filmed the videos on a mobile phone hidden in a backpack. Police say he then uploaded at least 283 videos to pornographic websites, racking up millions of views.

Many of the 555 victims - some of which were underage - were targeted on the capital's Metro system.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49425694 .

19-8-30 Peterborough fire: Five arrested over Whirlpool HQ blaze: Five teenagers [probably all males] have been arrested on suspicion of arson after a massive blaze engulfed Whirlpool HQ in Peterborough.