a workplace mass murder and suicide are really not happy things, but it seems like the media [in SF and even the UK] thought it'd be interesting to bring back our thoughts of "going postal" by publishing this story.
and i dunno why it's interestingly necessary for this little tidbit at the end:
from SFGATE:
James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University and an expert on homicides, said he believed the death toll might be the highest ever for any workplace shooting carried out by a woman.Most workplace mass murderers are men. Women committed only four out of 53 workplace shootings since 1976 that involved more than one victim, Fox said in a telephone interview.
"Men, more than women, tend to view their self-worth by what they do" at work, Fox said. Men also appear more prone to use violence in seeking revenge while "women tend to view murder as a last resort," he said.
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I have the dubious pleasure of working down the road (at UCSB)from this particular massacre site, and have used the drop box out front scores of times. Seems ridiculous to say "I never thought it would happen here," considering the whole county has maybe 5 murders per year or something, but... I never thought it would happen here. We've made international news. And as biologically deterministic as it sounds, I (as a man) like the paragraph at the end only because it's worth rubbing in our faces that men on the whole are *probably* way more screwed up and trigger-happy than women will ever be.
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