Now we're really getting ugly: it's because of his race.

[Amak8]

There is also the issue of race. Not all of the men I listed in the beginning of this piece are Caucasian. However, take a moment and imagine what the archetypical image of a mass murderer in the United States looks like. Is he white in your mind? This image can only be attributed to the truth of those patterns that have established themselves, from Charles Whitman’s 1966 shooting spree at the University of Texas, to Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, to the 1999 Columbine massacre, to Wade Michael Page’s 2012 attack on the Sikh temple in Wisconsin. The mass murderer is a type. And his race is white.

Young, African-American men are often imagined to be violent on the street, killing one another in gang-related violence or murdering convenience store clerks while trying to empty the cash register. The stereotypical image, even in its wrongheaded reduction of the black man to an inherently violent being, does not leave room for that other kind of murderer, the one who plans and executes a calculated, non-spontaneous large-scale death spree.

The angry white man has usurped the angry black man.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/guns-and-the-decline-of-the-young-man/

Ok so we can classify an entire race based on the actions of 8 people, but it would be unfair to do the same to other races. What is this garbage?



Mass murderers come in all colors.

According to Mother Jones, 62 mass shootings — defined as a single spree that killed at least four people — have been carried out in the U.S. since 1982. Only one was perpetrated by a female.
In 2006, Jennifer San Marco fatally shot her former neighbor, then drove to work and killed six colleagues before turning her gun on herself. The rest of the massacres were carried out by males, 44 of whom were white.

Read more: http://theweek.com/article/index/237938/why-are-there-so-few-female-mass-murderers

Whites committed 71% of the mass murders and are 72% of the population.

[Skittles]

1. let's show that chart by gender

OH WAIT

[Confusious]

3. Don't worry, women are getting into the action also

http://setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2012/05/01/feature-01

Unless she's just a poor victim of the patriarchy.

[Skittles]

4. don't worry????

[Confusious]

6. Forgot the sarcasm thingy around "don't worry" nt

[Confusious]

2. Heard of the others

Hadn't heard of Leopold though. Ass got to live to a ripe old age.

[Marinedem]

5. Really?

Heart of Darkness?

The Congo?

Damn. I thought everyone knew.

[Confusious]

7. My focus is more on wars

roses, 100 years, 7 years, french and indian, revolution, civil, WW1, WW2, etc.

It kinda swam around the edges. I had heard of the congo, just never looked into the reason it was named.

I missed it. Sorry.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Law enforcement profiling is illegal. But for professional profilers...

like FBI, investigators and such....profiling is a valuable tool. There is a pattern among certain kinds of killers, a type to look for, when you don't know who is, for example, a serial killer.

Professionals know from the victims, the M.O., and such, what type the killer is likely to be. Race is just one of many things the killer is likely to be. Race, gender, age, sociableness, I.Q., success or vocation, etc. I've seen that on those crime shows.

Their profiling is based on historical data. And it's usually correct...at least from what I've seen. (I admit I watch a lot of those shows, and I've read quite a few true crime books, as well....sort of a hobby.)

It's pretty amazing how close they can come to what the actual killer is, when he is found.

This was done in that famous Russian killer case (a really good movie was made about it, with Stephen Rea...I think it's called Citizen X):

Andrei Chikatilo is the worst serial killer in Russian history. He murdered at least 53 young girls and boys starting and 1982, and ending in 1990, when he was captured.

A psychologist, Dr. Bukhanovsky, was hired to help with the case. He did a major profile of the killer, and called him Citizen X. The doctor said X was a homosexual, possibly had a wife and children. He called the killer a necrosadist, and by mutilating his victims organs, he showed his control.

Bukhanovsky read his paper Citizen X to Chikatilo, who confessed it was true, and told where, when, and who he murdered. He got sexual gratification from murdering and could only reach orgasm if he killed his victim.

Chikatilo admitted to at least 53 murders, and led police to some undiscovered victims. Chikatilo believed that the eyes of the victims kept an image of the killer frozen in them after death, and that is why he gouged his victims' eyes out.

http://serialkillr.tripod.com/SerialKillersExposed/chikatilo.html

[kestrel91316]

9. I'm guessing you are just one more Angry White Man,

so I'm not going to engage.