Mass shootings and masculinity

• Ahn, Gun Violence and Toxic Masculinity: What Happened in Florida is No Anomaly (2018
• Amonett, We will never address gun violence if we don't address the root of the problem - masculinity (2018);
• Anonymous, The Trouble With Men (2007).
• Bensadoun, ‘Pandemic of violence’: Calls mount for recognition of misogyny in Nova Scotia shooting (2020);
• Bourgeois, Let's call the Nova Scotia mass shooting what it is: White male terrorism (2020);
• Bridges, Masculinity and Mass Shootings in the U.S 2015 (2015);
• Bridges, Tristan. The sociological explanation for why men in America turn to gun violence. QZ (2017);
• Chemaly, America's Mass Shooting Problem Is a Domestic Violence Problem (2017);
• Devega, The plague of angry white men: How racism gun culture and toxic masculinity are poisoning America (2015);
• Donegan, The American gun crisis? It’s largely a domestic violence crisis (2021);
• Goodman and Moynihan, Mass Shootings and Domestic Violence (2017);
• Hamblin, Toxic Masculinity and Murder (2016);
• Johnson, Allan. (2017). And Now Las Vegas - Manhood, Guns, and Violence. 10 June (2017);
• Katz, Jackson. (2011). Guns, mental illness and masculinity. Huffington Post, Jan 17 (2011);
• Khadaroo and Jonsson, Many school shooters, one common factor - masculinity (2015);
• Kimmel, Masculinity, mental illness and guns, Dec 19 (2012); 
• Kimmel, Michael. (2011). A tale of two terrorists redux. Society Pages, 27 July (2011);
• McCulloch and Maher (2020). The intimate connection between mass shootings and violence against women, May 7 (2020);
• Miri. (2014). Masculinity Violence and Bandaid Solutions. Freethoughtblogs, May 24 (2014);
• Murphy, Meagan. (2012). But what about the men: On masculinity and mass shootings. Rabble.ca, 18 Dec. (2012);
• Okun, Rob. (2018). Why is no one talking about the gender of mass shooters? (2018);
• Okun, Rob. (2019). Are we ready now to put shooters’ gender at center of gun debate?, PeaceVoice, August 8 (2019);
• Paradkar, ‘Ultimate authority. Ultimate power.’ What the Nova Scotia mass shooting tells us about toxic masculinity, April 24 2020;
• Siddiquee, The Truth About The Men Who Riot And Kill (2016);
• Wade, Two violent men, two symptoms of the same sickness (2016);
• Walsh, The American Impulse to Equate Guns With Freedom and Masculinity With Violence Is Killing Us (2017)
• Nova Scotia mass murder shows the public threat of domestic violence, say experts, Canadian Press, April 26 (2020)

(b) Journal articles

• Farr, K. (2018). Adolescent rampage school shootings: Responses to failing masculinity performances by already-troubled boys. Gender Issues, 35(2), 73-97.
• Kennedy-Kollar, D., & Charles, C. (2013). Hegemonic masculinity and mass murderers in the United States. Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice, 8(2).
• Vito, C., Admire, A., & Hughes, E. (2018). Masculinity, aggrieved entitlement, and violence: considering the Isla Vista mass shooting. NORMA, 13(2), 86-102.

Also see:

• This XY collection on "Guns, violence, and masculinity";
• Materials on the Toronto massacre in April 2018, in this collection on men's rights;
• This bibliography of academic scholarship on guns, men, and masculinities.