But if a woman has a gun, it doesn’t matter how much bigger and stronger her misogynistic attacker is. All that will do for him is give him a bit more center mass for her to aim at.
We’ve talked about the mass stabbing in Sydney already, especially the claims that “hundreds would have been killed” without Australia’s gun control laws.
But we’ve been seeing more about the killer, as we normally do following any kind of mass murder. Most are motivated by something, though we often have to guess to some degree or another.
While the killer is dead and can’t defend himself–and, honestly, I don’t care that he can’t–there appears to be a one-word answer to the motive in this case: Misogyny.
By Tom Knighton