Tristan Bridges and Tara Leigh Tober, “Mass Shootings and Masculinity”
1.What is the single most patterned fact associated with mass shooters?
What was the Bushmaster campaign based on? What was the link the company was trying to make?
Follman, et. al. found that how many mass shootings happened in the past 3 decades were committed by boys or men?
Why do countries like Switzerland and Israel have in common? What is their homicide rate?
What is the homicide rate in the U.S.?
What does Jennifer Carlson believe about the relationship between gun ownership and gun culture?
In 2009 how many handguns, rifles, and shotguns were available to American civilians?
What is the NRA retort when mass shootings occur?
What is social identity threat?
What does Michael Kimmel say will get a playground fight started?
What is the masculinity overcompensation thesis? What role does violence play in this process?
How have researchers created a masculinity threat in experimental settings?
What did Munsch and Willer find out about college men who’d had their masculinity threatened? How did this affect their views on sexual coercion?
In what way is violence a masculinity resource?
What does Kimmel say about boys and young men involved in extremely violent behavior?
What was the most common form of teasing that were mentioned in random school shootings between 1982 and 2001? How does this tie into Pascoe’s study of boys and young men in high school?
How does a cultural analysis differ from a social psychological analysis? How does the focus change from social psychology to culture?
What is aggrieved entitlement? Who is most likely to hold these beliefs? What leads people to feel this way?
Mark Follman, “More Guns, More Mass Shootings”
In the U.S. in 1995 how many guns were estimated to be in private hands? What is that rate today? What is the bump in ownership? How does this compare to the rise in population?
[Based on when this chapter was written] What percent of U.S. households had guns in the past decade? How did that change since the 1980s? What does this suggest to us about gun ownership?
As of 2012 how many states allowed firearms in bars?
What did Virginia do to its gun laws?
What did the Colorado Supreme Court rule in 2012?
Why is Virginia becoming known for its gun safety training?
What percent of states recognize handgun permits from other states?
What would a reciprocity bill allow for?
What percent of the killers the author analyzed acquired their guns legally?
How does the FBI define a mass murder?
When did the Federal Assault Weapons Ban expire? What has happened to it since?
How does Hargarten of the Medical College of Wisconsin believe we should view mass shootings?
Erin Thomas Echols, “Inequality in Life and Death: The Death Penalty in the United States”