The Under-Reported Truth Behind Most Mass Shootings
Horrific mass shootings, like Dylann Roof’s church rampage in Charleston and Vester Flanagan’s on-air murders in Roanoke, Virginia grab headlines, but when David Conley broke into his ex-girlfriend Valerie Jackson’s home in Houston, Texas on August 8 and allegedly shot her and her six children to death, it was treated as an act of domestic violence, and got considerably less attention. But it was by any definition a mass shooting.
This is the untold story behind many mass shootings. Fifty-seven percent of mass shootings in America between 2009 and July 2015 involved a family member or intimate partner; 81 percent of the victims were women and children, the Huffington Post recently found.
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Due in part to all of these loopholes, women and children make up the majority of mass shooting victims. A closer look at the Huffington Post data reveals that between 2009 and July 2015, 70 percent of mass shootings took place at homes. In those cases, 42 percent of the incidents involved a former or current intimate partner.
The close correlation between mass shootings and domestic violence is not new. In 2013, AlterNet reported that 57 percent of mass shootings dating back to 2009 involved a shooter who killed a spouse or family member; at least eight of the shooters had a prior domestic violence charge.
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/under-reported-truth-behind-most-mass-shootings
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