Dan Savage’s map brought to my mind one very poignant constant in all of these incidents (Ft. Hood, Oklahoma City and 17 separate postal incidents included): they were perpetrated by men. Can you think of a woman assassin in all of U.S. history? Though some may exist, I cannot think of them. Shouldn’t someone be looking into this!? Surely there is some critical cause that makes a man (and not a woman) capable of gunning unarmed people down.
Male propensity towards acts of violence have been documented for centuries though. Yet male-oriented classes on peaceful conflict resolution are few and far between. In order to get my engineering degree I was required to take an “ethics” course, with the hope it would make me more ethical. Why not have young men take a conflict resolution class, or a peaceful self-expression class? Should Congress rush to pass a sweeping Gun Control Law…or should they rush to enact better counseling and education for boys on how to deal with their anger?
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