That crazy gun culture
Over at Science Daily, comes the PSH:
In “Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre” (Paradigm, 2008), UCLA professor of education and cultural critic Douglas Kellner argues that school shootings and other acts of mass violence embody a crisis of out-of-control gun culture and male rage, heightened by a glorification of hypermasculinity and violence in the media.
Oh boy! We’re blaming the gun culture and the patriarchy! Note that, in a small defense of the piece, by gun culture he’s referencing the glorification of guns in our culture and not the gun culture as usually described. Still, it doesn’t sound very sciency. It doesn’t seem to explain why anti-gunners are so violent, though.
