Mass murderers have one thing in common

[kefkat]

Interesting article

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Terror, it seems, often starts at home. Whether they are self-proclaimed jihadists or men with a grievance, a pattern is emerging among the mass killers whose murderous rages have claimed so many victims in recent times.

A history of grudges against women and a record of domestic violence have been common factors in a number of such attacks, offering startling insights into the psychology of men who set out to kill complete strangers.

Cont: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/mass-murderers-have-one-thing-in-common---and-its-not-a-womens-p/

 

[kefkat]

Another article which I thought linked in with this so hence why I put it in the same thread

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Female Mass Killers: Why They're So Rare

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As last week's shooting at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, unfolded, the narrative seemed sickeningly familiar: A few moments of chaos ending in multiple deaths.

But by the end of the day on Dec. 2, the police revealed something surprising. One of the two shooters who attacked a health department training and holiday party that day was female.

That's shocking, according to experts in human behavior, because women are violent at much lower rates than men. And mass killings, even more so than other types of violence, are overwhelmingly a male phenomenon.

Female mass killers are "so rare that it just hasn't been studied," said James Garbarino, a psychologist at Loyola University Chicago who has researched human development and violence. "There aren't enough cases." [The History of Human Aggression]

Cont: http://www.livescience.com/53047-why-female-mass-shooters-are-rare.html