Jane Mayer on James Hodgkinson, who shot Congressman Steve Scalise, and on the link between domestic violence and mass shootings.
More than two-thirds of mass shootings are domestic violence incidents or are perpetrated by shooters with a history of domestic violence, according to one of the first peer-reviewed research papers exploring the links between domestic violence (DV) and mass shootings. The paper also finds that DV-related mass shootings are associated with higher fatality rates than mass shootings unrelated to DV.
The fight for rational gun safety laws is frustrating. But the information that the perpetrator of the latest mass shooting also was guilty of domestic abuse—a conviction that should have kept him ...
Jane Mayer on James Hodgkinson, who shot Congressman Steve Scalise, and on the link between domestic violence and mass shootings.
More than two-thirds of mass shootings are domestic violence incidents or are perpetrated by shooters with a history of domestic violence, according to one of the first peer-reviewed research papers exploring the links between domestic violence (DV) and mass shootings. The paper also finds that DV-related mass shootings are associated with higher fatality rates than mass shootings unrelated to DV.
The 26-year-old white man named Devin Patrick Kelley who allegedly killed 26 people Sunday as they attended church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, had a history of domestic violence. He was court-martialed on charges he repeatedly hit his wife and attacked his stepson. But after he was kicked out of the Air Force with a bad conduct discharge, officials failed to report his crimes to a federal database, so Kelley had no problem buying the gun he used Sunday. We look at the link between mass shootings and domestic violence with Soraya Chemaly, director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, and with Mariame Kaba, an organizer and educator who works on anti-domestic violence programs.
The bill will address the link between animal abuse and violence towards humans and aims to stop the escalation of dangerous behavior among offenders who hurt animals.
How can America enact saner gun laws when we've stopped even noticing mass shootings?
Many are asking if the warning signs were missed.
Jane Mayer on James Hodgkinson, who shot Congressman Steve Scalise, and on the link between domestic violence and mass shootings.
From 2006 to 2017, there have been more than 350 mass killings in the United States. A USA TODAY investigation discovered that they happen far more often than the government reports and can be shockingly predictable.
Domestic violence and mass shootings. We’ll look at the link, in Sutherland Springs, Texas and beyond.
The man who shot and killed dozens at a Texas church had been convicted of assaulting his wife and a child, and he may have been motivated by a "domestic situation," say officials. The latest tragedy underscores a link between mass killings and domestic violence. John Yang talks with Deborah Epstein of the Georgetown Law Domestic Violence Clinic and James Fox of Northeastern University.
Devin Patrick Kelley had a history of domestic violence. So did Omar Mateen and many, many others. What’s going on?
