When TV pundits misuse the word 'psychotic' they unintentionally malign a group of people who share six letters with but couldn't be more different from psychopaths.
In a five year study, women whose male partners experience two or more periods of unemployment are almost three times as likely to be victims of intimate partner violence.
In Mr. Sodini's blog, he says repeatedly, "I have nothing to lose." He had nothing to lose because he (apparently) had no strong, affectionate bonds with anyone and never had.
Concealed handgun permit holders want what they want. Period. And there's no number of mass shootings, dead policeman, or innocent victims that will ever change their minds.
This was a hate crime against women. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that Sodini was just a lone psychopath: his hatred of women was based on his sense of masculine entitlement.
Media analysis has so far ignored or glossed over Sodini's religious affiliations. Some of his readings included a book by Texas evangelist who claims that husbands own their wives, as literal property.
BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. - The gunman who fatally shot three women at a Pittsburgh-area gym is shown in two Internet videos discussing his desire to "emotiona...