Tag: mass shooter

Relatives of Plymouth Shooting Victims Say Police Granted Assailant a ‘Licence to Kill’

A man who shot dead five people in eight minutes in the English city of Plymouth before taking his own life was given a “licence to kill” by incompetent police officers, the families of his victims have claimed. On Aug. 12, 2021, Jake Davison, 22, shot dead his mother Maxine, 51, at their home in…


Jail for British Vlogger Whose Videos ‘Inspired’ Mass Shooter in Buffalo

A British vlogger who called for armed insurrection and espoused white supremacist causes has been jailed for 11 years and six months by a judge in England. Daniel Harris, 19, was convicted at Manchester Crown Court in November of five charges of encouraging terrorism—by publishing videos on a far-right website between February 2021 and April…


FBI: Minnesota Man Was Making Arsenal of Weapons Against Police

SAVAGE, Minn.—A Minnesota man who idolized the shooter who killed five people at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs and was allegedly building an arsenal of automatic weapons to use against police was arrested this week after a retired police officer reported his behavior to authorities, according to federal charges. The warning signs—strikingly similar to…


Mass Shootings Are a ‘Societal Problem, Not a Gun Problem’: Former FBI Agent

On the heels of another deadly mass shooting, people are looking for the culprit of the problem and searching for solutions. The number of mass shooting incidents reported and verified this year has surpassed 325. Fifteen of these incidents resulted in death. The most recent occurred on the Fourth of July, when Robert Crimo III…


Most Mass Shooters ‘Dad-Deprived Males’: Author Warren Farrell

Key commonalities for most mass shooters in the United States are that they are male and that they lack a father figure in their lives, author Warren Farrell says. “There’s common denominators among mass shooters, the most obvious is that they’re male—98 percent are male. A second common denominator is that they’re almost all dad-deprived…