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Emasculated? Angry?
Monday, October 5, 2015
As we go through the grieving process that follows a tragedy like last week’s shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, it seems our society overstays the time in the questioning phase of grief.
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Unfortunately, violent outbursts are only symptomatic of fundamental problems that are embedded deeply in areas far more sensitive than the issue of gun rights.
Over the weekend, the Christian Science-Monitor intimated we be overlooking a common factor in the majority of these shootings: most shooters have been males with a distorted view of masculinity.
The CSM characterized them as losers who’d been “emasculated” by society. Their feelings of impotence had proven to be the catalyst for a “toxic cocktail” of frustration.
