A shocking report in USA Today identifies the group behind 94% of the mass killings in this country over the past ten years.
Why are none of their leaders speaking out against these heinous crimes? Answers below the Fleur-de-Kos.
In an interview with NPR's NPR Morning Edition, USA Today data journalist Meghan Hoyer explained how she had analyzed FBI crime statistics as well as reports on hundreds of individual news items for the story. She and her co-authors found over 250 instances since 2006 in which at least four people had been murdered by the perpetrators. Over 1,400 people have been killed in mass murder attacks in that timeframe.
Once the information had been compiled, it became clear that the overwhelming majority of the killings - 94% - had been committed by just one demographic group:
Men.
Is it just a coincidence that no government agency - state or federal - is responsible for analyzing and presenting this information in this manner? Has this observation been obscured because of the undue and disproportianate representation of men in positions of power?
Why is there such silence from the group's leadrship on this subject? At any given moment one can turn on the TV or radio and hear from the likes of Barack Obama, John McCain, Ryan Seacrest, Alex Jones, or any number of Duggars or Robertsons, and hear about nuclear non-proliferation, enabling terrorists, the dearth of eligible bachelors/bachelorettes, Bible-thumping, duck hunting, and/or something-something brown people - but not a word about how all but a few of the mass killings in this country are perpetrated by MEN.
In other words: Not all men are mass murderers. But almost all mass murderers are men. That's just a fact. Why hasn't law enforcement developed better tools to identify the members of this deadly cohort? Is it because police departments in this country are not merely infiltrated, but in fact almost universally run by Men? (Or as they sometimes refer to themselves, Males.)
And if the group was really against this kind of violence - over 1,400 dead in the past decade from mass killing incidents by members of the Men - their leadership should be shouting their objections in the most strenuous terms and taking steps to banish the offenders from their membership.
And yet... crickets.
As the possessor or a "Y" chromosome, I am deeply ashamed of the failure of my leaders to condemn these heinous acts.