A new report on mass attacks in the U.S. over a five-year period is highlighting the connection between domestic violence, misogyny and shootings.
U.S. Secret Service report also finds notable link between public attacks and domestic violence historyA girl leaves flowers at a makeshift memorial at the edge of a police cordon in front of a municipal building that was the scene of a shooting in Virginia Beach, Va., on June 1, 2019. The gunman, killed by police after fatally shooting 12 people, was said to have been a disgruntled former municipal worker.
The report calls for communities to intervene early when they see warning signs of violence and encourages businesses to consider workplace violence prevention plans. While the centre said it found one-quarter of the attackers had subscribed to a belief system involving conspiracies or hateful ideologies, including antisemitic or anti-government views, half of the attackers were motivated by more specific grievances and "were retaliating for perceived wrongs related to personal, domestic or workplace issues."
The report also called for greater attention toward domestic violence and misogyny, noting that 41 per cent of the attackers were "found to have had a history of engaging in at least one incident of domestic violence.""Though not all who possess misogynistic views are violent, viewpoints that describe women as the enemy or call for violence against women remain a cause for concern," the report said.
The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of incidents in the U.S. that defines mass shootings as those in which four or more people are shot, recorded 513 deaths from such incidents in 2020.
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