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Mass Murder & Spree Killing

GNC said:
Maybe they should teach anger management and how to deal with embarrassment and disappointment in schools. Might prepare a lot of people for the inevitable times things don't go their way. Mind you, most people don't think to pick up a gun when they're not invited to a party.
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The thing is, nowadays its not seen as character building to have winners and losers at school, in my day at sportsday there was a gold, silver and bronze medal (not real, just card covered in foil, and the bronze was green of some reason) now everyone gets a medal for 'taking part', so people who grew up being rewarded for doing FA dont know how to deal with failure, being told they are wrong, not being rewarded for doing FA etc.
 
Souleater said:
The thing is, nowadays its not seen as character building to have winners and losers at school, in my day at sportsday there was a gold, silver and bronze medal (not real, just card covered in foil, and the bronze was green of some reason) now everyone gets a medal for 'taking part', so people who grew up being rewarded for doing FA dont know how to deal with failure, being told they are wrong, not being rewarded for doing FA etc.
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That's called entitlement and you get it across all ages now, even among those who are too old to have had a medal for taking part. Not sure when it started, but I don't think you can blame the schools for trying to be encouraging.
 

Ecuador prison riot: New fighting at Guayaquil jail kills 68​

At least 68 prisoners have been killed in new fighting at an Ecuadorean prison where more than a hundred inmates died in clashes between rival gangs in September, officials say.

The riot at the Litoral Penitentiary in the city of Guayaquil reportedly began on Friday evening.

Police tactical units who entered the prison buildings found guns, explosives and blades, reports say.
Officials say they have re-gained control of the jail.
Nearly 300 inmates have died so far this year in the country's prisons, and September's gang-related violence was the worst in Ecuador's history.

Some 119 inmates lost their lives during a riot in the Litoral Penitentiary on 28 September.

The latest fighting at the prison in Guayaquil, Guayas province, has also left 25 people injured and follows a smaller armed clash earlier this month in which three inmates were shot dead.

There were reports of further violence at the prison later on Saturday and soldiers were deployed as reinforcements, securing the outside of the facility in armoured vehicles.

Authorities said the violence started as a territorial dispute between rival groups after a gang leader was released early.
"As this section of the prison was without a ringleader, other gangs tried to... enter to carry out a total massacre," the governor of Guayas province, Pablo Arosemena, told reporters.

On 28 September, inmates from one wing of the prison crawled through a hole to gain access to a different wing, where they attacked rival gang members. Hundreds of officers and army soldiers were deployed to regain control of the complex.

The deadly fight, which saw some inmates decapitated, drew attention to the growing influence in Ecuador of transnational crime gangs such as the Mexico-based Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation cartels.

Ecuador's prisons are currently accommodating about 9,000 more prisoners than they were designed to hold, officials say. The Litoral Penitentiary was designed for 5,300 inmates but currently holds 8,500.
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hunck said:

Ecuador prison riot: New fighting at Guayaquil jail kills 68​

At least 68 prisoners have been killed in new fighting at an Ecuadorean prison where more than a hundred inmates died in clashes between rival gangs in September, officials say.

The riot at the Litoral Penitentiary in the city of Guayaquil reportedly began on Friday evening.

Police tactical units who entered the prison buildings found guns, explosives and blades, reports say.
Officials say they have re-gained control of the jail.
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Just let them get on with it.
 
Homeless people targeted again.

A gunman killed two people and injured two others during an early morning shooting spree, police in the Canadian province of British Columbia have said.

Emergency alerts issued shortly after 06:00 local time (13:00 GMT) warned of "multiple shooting scenes" in downtown Langley, a city about 25 miles east of Vancouver.

Police confirmed a lone suspect had been shot dead on the scene. He is believed to have been targeting homeless people in the area. The suspect and his victims will not be publicly identified until police have notified next-of-kin.

Sergeant David Lee, a spokesman for the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said the series of incidents began at midnight and continued until early morning. He said the attacker was an individual known to the police, but it was "too early" in the investigation to identify a motive.

Among the injured, a woman is in critical condition while a man sustained a serious injury to his leg. Both have been taken to Langley Memorial Hospital.

Earlier on Monday, police issued public service alerts to Langley residents - for only the second time ever - about "multiple reports of shots fired" in the city's downtown area as well as its neighbouring township.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62296874
 
An interesting report.

A new study of school shooters over the past 50 years found that 70% had perpetrated violence against women (VAW), either before or during their attacks.

The research adds a layer of understanding about the attitudes and behaviors of those who perpetrate school violence and could help shape strategies to prevent future shootings, said Nicole Johnson, associate professor of counseling psychology in Lehigh University's College of Education and lead author of the study.

"These findings have many implications, including the importance of targeting policies and procedures that normalize violence and of taking victims of harassment and abuse seriously, prior to escalation," Johnson said. "It demands that we attend to, and take seriously, these 'smaller' acts of violence that exist on the same spectrum as school shootings."

The study, published in the journal Psychology of Men & Masculinities, analyzed the profiles of 59 boys and men who perpetrated school shootings between 1966 and 2018 to determine the prevalence of violence against women in their histories.

The profiles were drawn from the school shooter database compiled by Peter Langman Ph.D., a researcher, author and expert on the psychology of school shooting perpetrators, who is also a co-author of the paper.

Approximately 89% to 97% of perpetrators of mass violence are male, and many studies have established links between mass violence and hegemonic masculinity—the idea that men are dominant and that their oppression of women is justified. ...

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-highlights-link-school-violence-women.html
 
ramonmercado said:
The study, published in the journal Psychology of Men & Masculinities, analyzed the profiles of 59 boys and men who perpetrated school shootings between 1966 and 2018 to determine the prevalence of violence against women in their histories.

The profiles were drawn from the school shooter database compiled by Peter Langman Ph.D., a researcher, author and expert on the psychology of school shooting perpetrators, who is also a co-author of the paper.
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It's scary that there have been at least 59 school shootings by men and boys between 1966 and 2018, and that there is a need for an expert on the psychology of school shooting perpetrators.
What a state of affairs.
 
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