After the Jacksonville Shooting, We Need to Talk About White Male Rage

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18. What is the source of thie rage?

I know that Fox and hate radio stoke anger and hatred, but millions of young white males who hear that nonsense do not buy guns and kill people. So what exactly does create young (and sometimes not so young) men who kill, sometimes in anger but sometimes well planned in advance. Certainly mental illness comes into play. Is it parents? Is it violent games? Unstable home environments? And even those who do not actually kill have warped views like those of white supremacists. Easy access to guns can be changed with laws, although the country is awash in guns so they’ll still be available through illegal means. But how do you change the creation of toxic masculinity in the first place? I feel as though we just go in circles after every mass shooting trying to figure out why, but nothing we do prevents the next shooting. There is no one answer, but if f we can’t address real causes, we can’t address the problem. I have no solutions, just frustration.