5 Shooters in One Week-What gives?

7feb08—I heard four different reports of shootings—

• In Portsmouth, Ohio, a husband shot and stabbed his teacher wife in front of her students.
• In Los Angeles, some guy barricades himself in his house and says he killed three family members. . .swat officer shot and killed.
• and in St Louis MO (Kirkwood)city hall, Gerald Thornton shoots 5, and he is killed by police...

William Michael Layne, in the first incident, walked into his estranged wife's classroom and shot and stabbed her in front of her fifth-grade class. She had filed for divorce in January, so it seems this was related to that. She survived, as did another woman he stabbed in an alley a few blocks away. Later, in a police stand-off in Layne's home, he shot and killed himself.

The second shooter in Los Angeles apparently killed three men in the house, and also shot and killed a SWAT officer, wounding another, before killing himself.

The third shooter, Gerald Thornton, apparently blamed the city for citations he'd received, and said his constitutional rights were being taken. . .obviously, not, since he used the 2^nd amendment to obtain that gun and carry it over to the courthouse. A CNN reporter interviewed Thornton's brother, He seemed oblivious, and too thick to understand the gravity of the situation. . .the reporter asked him if he understood, and he continued to behave as if there was some sort of good reason for his brother to kill people. Tony Harris, the anchor at CNN cut the interview short because of the crap the guy was saying, as if excusing his brother's actions, saying something about how when you are "at war" there will be casualties.

She asked him afterward off camera and reported that he said Thornton owned a construction equipment company, and he was cited for having too many vehicles. Thornton had a reputation for being contentious and disrupting council meetings. The news conference a few minutes later, was so short, that reporter missed it as the speaker walked away, refusing questions.

While I was typing this on 8feb08, a breaking news report of the Baton Rouge Technical College student--a female--opened fire on the classroom, killing at least 2 people and then shooting herself.

Then, there was today's report of the shootings in at a lecture at Northern University in Illinois. The new "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre?"

What's the deal with a rash of shootings???? Why do people do it, and why do they seem to happen in clumps, one after the other?

Historically, these snipers and shooters are all men, (notwithstanding the the anomalous female shooter in Louisiana) . My guess is that it must have something to do with the fact that in our culture, men are discouraged from expressing their feelings. I think things just build up over time and then someone, proverbially, "Snaps."

5 Shooters in One Week-What gives?