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Red Table Talk | 99% Of Mass Shooters Are MenOn this week’s Red Table Talk, leading criminologist Dr. Jillian Peterson reveals the most likely perpetrators of mass shootings. Watch Red Table Talk Thursday to hear Dr. Jillian’s full explanation.
Posted by Red Table Talk on Wednesday, June 15, 2022
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2024 Media
- Associated Press – Police say 17-year old killed sixth grader, wounded five in Perry, Iowa school shooting
- Bloomberg – Big business thinks mass shootings aren’t its problem. It’s wrong
- First Post- 17-year-old behind shooting at Iowa school: Why are more adolescents picking up guns in the US?
- Kare 11 News – Researchers release findings on causes of homicide spike in Twin Cities during pandemic
- National Public Radio – 3 more people are charged in connection with the Super Bowl victory rally shooting
- New York Times – Young victims, young suspects: the Kansas City shooting and gun violence
- Newsweek – Dylan Butler transgender claims flood social media
- TBN – School shooters: How to stop the madness. A Dr. Phil news special
- USA Today – Houston church shooting revives claims on transgender shooters. Evidence shows they’re false
2023 Media
- Associated Press – Nashville school shooter’s writings reignite debate over releasing material written by mass killers
- Ashland Times Gazette – AU to welcome Jillian Peterson, co-author of highly-acclaimed ‘The Violence Project’
- Barron – Shock turns to disbelief in mass shooting-hit Asian communities
- Bloomberg News – Red Flag Laws are the answer
- Business Insider Africa – Most mass shooters in the US are men, but the Nashville school shooting shows that statistics don’t always tell the whole story
- CBS News – A look into the traits of a mass shooter
- CBS News – Maine gunman is the latest mass shooter with a military background. Experts explain the connection.
- CNN with Kaitlan Collins – Louisville mass shooting
- CNN with Jake Tapper – The Violence Project’s Jillian Peterson
- CNN with Abby Phillip – https://video.snapstream.net/Play/6VsT7eePGtOnmdiVHjR2R5?accessToken=tbpghl7q1682
- C-Span Washington Journal – Mass shootings & gun violence in America
- First Post – 17-year-old behind shooting at Iowa school: Why are more adolescents picking up guns in the US?
- Forbes – California mass shooting suspects were older men – here’s how rare that is
- The Guardian – Older suspects in California shootings defy typical mass shooter profile
- The Guardian – I wept for Ken: Why men have the most to gain from watching Barbie
- The Harvard Gazette – Psychologist examines genesis of online groups of sexual embittered men, why some turn violent
- The Hill – ‘Back to school’ has new dangers for students this year
- History Behind News Podcast – Psychology & Lives of Mass Shooters
- Insider – The Monterey Park gunman was one of the oldest mass shooters in US history. Here’s why it’s so rare to see elderly gunmen
- Insider – Most mass shooters are almost always men, experts say
- K12 Dive – Real or hoax? Intention of 40% of school shooting threats unknown
- KARE 11 – Minnesota schools found more guns post-pandemic
- LA Times – Monterey Park suspect is oldest shooter in recent history
- Minnesota Public Radio – New law allows Minnesota students to opt out of shooter drills
- Minnesota Public Radio – Do school resource officers make schools safer? Experts say they’re not sure
- NACU Podcast – Stopping the next mass shooting
- New York Times – The signs were all there. Why did no one stop the Maine shooter?
- New York Times – Most mass shooting suspects are male
- Newsweek – Covenant school shooter raises concerns about mass shooter profile
- Marshall Project – Yes, it’s getting worse: New data shows mass shootings are more frequent
- Minnesota Public Radio – Do school resource officers make schools safer? Experts say they’re not sure.
- MSN – Dire warnings about main gunman didn’t stop his rampage
- MSNBC – Mental illness and mass shootings
- National Public Radio – 74 people have been killed or injured by guns at American schools this year
- National Public Radio – The suspected Monterey Park attacker was 72. Here’s why older shooters are rare
- NBC News – Monterey Park suspect may have been targeting his ex-wife in the mass shooting, mayor says
- New York Times – 7 dead in shooting in Half Moon Bay
- New York Times – Maine mass shooting is America’s 8th, and deadliest, this year
- New York Times – The signs were all there. Why did no one stop the Maine shooter?
- Reason Magazine – No Matter the ‘Details on These Shootings,’ Biden Says, Congress Should Respond by Banning ‘Assault Weapons
- San Francisco Chronicle – California shooting suspects are senior citizens: Here’s why that’s so rare
- Seattle Times– Suspect’s age stands out among mass shooters
- Star Tribune – Modern day machine guns: switch devices are making guns deadlier than ever
- The Times UK – Can these scientists stop America’s next mass shooting?
- The Trace – The lasting legacy of the Columbine massacre
- The Trace – A guide to understanding mass shootings in America
- USA Today – California mass shooting suspect is oldest in US recorded history, researchers say
- USA Today – Why women mass shooters are a rare occurrence
- Wall Street Journal – Monterey Park Suspected Gunman Was Oldest Mass Shooter in Modern History
- Washington Post – 11th victim dies after Monterey Park shooting as police explore more theories
- WGN News Chicago – Author of ‘The Violence Project’ discusses mass shooting in Maine
- Wired Tech Support – Criminologist answers true crime questions from Twitter
- Yahoo News – The Monterey Park suspected mass shooter was 72. Here’s why that’s uncommon
2022 Media
- ABC This Week in Australia – Mass shootings in the United States
- Alan Carter Radio in Toronto – We know what we need to do: At least 21 dead after shooting at Texas elementary school
- Ann Arbor News – Parents of Oxford killer don’t want experts to tell jury they could have intervened
- American Psychological Association Podcast – How to stop mass shootings with Jillian Peterson
- Associated Press – Buffalo is latest mass shooting by gunman wearing body armor
- Big Think – The 4 risk factors behind someone becoming a mass shooter
- Boston Globe – What drives mass shooters? Grievance, despair, and anger are more likely triggers than mental illness, experts say
- CBC News – How intervening early on the ‘pathway to violence’ could help prevent mass shootings
- CBC News – Beyond gun control, how many mass shootings could be prevented
- CBS News – Face the Nation
- Court TV Documentary – Rampage Killers
- CNN with Jake Tapper – Mass shooting expert on what could prevent future attacks
- CNN with Michael Smerconish – How society can stop mass shooters
- CNN – Mass shooters are increasingly attacking ‘soft targets’ such as supermarkets. Experts say securing them will be difficult
- CNN – Prosecutors seek to introduce evidence Michigan shooter’s parents created a pathway to violence
- Detroit News – Experts in Crumbley’s parents case say there are opportunities to intervene on the pathway to violence
- Dr. Phil Episode – Characteristics commonly found in mass shooters
- Education Weekly – Preventing student violence: 3 key takeaways
- Education Weekly – Responding to student threats: Schools wrestle with how to prevent violence
- The Gist Podcast – The project that collects and projects violence
- Global News – ‘Almost unbelievable:’ How disbelief may have shaped RCMP response to N.S. shooting spree
- The Guardian – US mass shootings are getting deadlier and more common
- Hamline News – Dr. Jillian Peterson wins Minnesota Book Award
- Independent – What we actually know about mass school shootings in the US – and the gunmen who carry them out
- KNX Radio LA – Replacement theory and the Buffalo shooting
- KSMQ Public Television – Responding to shooting threats: Strategies for schools
- LA Times – A smarter approach to active shooter drills
- Last week Tonight with John Oliver – School police
- Marshall Project – What you need to know about the rise is US mass shootings
- Mental Health Today- Radicalization and mental health: Just how connected are they?
- Minneapolis Saint Paul Magazine – Winners of the 2022 Minnesota Book Awards
- Minneapolis Saint Paul Magazine – Jillian Peterson does double duty
- Minnesota Public Radio – Winners announced for 2022 Minnesota Book Awards
- MSNBC – The Mehdi Hasan Show
- MSNBC – Research identifies common profiles for mass shooters
- Nancy Grace Crime Stories – July 4 shooting – Blood, carnage, horrific
- National Institute of Justice – Five facts about mass shootings in K-12 schools
- National Public Radio – 2 mass shootings – 1700 miles apart but bound by startling similarities
- National Public Radio – 2 professors, tracking patterns, try to predict who might carry out a mass shooting
- NBC News – A New Mexico man convinced the FBI he was not a threat. Then he carried out a school shooting
- NBC News – Texas gunman warned of Uvalde school shooting in private Facebook message
- New Yorker – What makes a mass shooter?
- News Nation – How to prevent a mass shooting? Police options are limited
- New Works Network – The Violence Project: How to stop a mass shooting epidemic
- New York Times – What do most mass shooters have in common? They bought their guns legally
- New York Times – A disturbing new pattern in mass shootings: Young assailants
- New York Times – We need hope to combat violence. That won’t arrive without action.
- New York Times – The mass shootings where stricter gun laws might have made a difference
- New York Times – What are the real warning signs of a mass shooting?
- New Yorker Radio Hour – What makes a mass shooter?
- Newsweek – Nearly half of mass shooters leaked plans to someone, like family: Study
- PBS Newshour – Buffalo massacre highlights how mass shooters are able to obtain weapons legally
- PBS Newshour – 3 things to know about America’s relentless gun violence
- PBS Newshour – What research says about identifying people who might commit mass shootings
- Pioneer Press – Minnesota Book Awards honor authors and artists in return to live ceremony
- Politico – Two professors found what creates a mass shooter. Will politicians pay attention?
- Psychiatric Times – Are school shooters psychopaths?
- Red Table Talk – Extreme violence: Inside the minds of people who hate
- Reuters – Death toll from mass shootings in United States is rising, study finds
- Reuters – ‘Tsunami’ of woes: U.S. school shooting spike amid pandemic stress
- Science Vs. Podcast – Mass shootings: How do we stop them?
- Star Tribune – For one mom and army veteran, MOAs handling of shooting was a failure
- Star Tribune – Mass shootings cannot, need not be the nations default
- Time Magazine – The “good guys with guns” keep failing to stop mass shootings
- Time Magazine – The Parkland gunman’s sentencing trial will decide if he gets the death penalty
- Tommy Tucker – New Orleans Radio – What do we know about mass shootings?
- Twin Cities Almanac – The Violence Project: How to stop a mass shooting epidemic
- USA Today 5 Things Podcast – An epidemic of gun violence
- Voyage Minnesota Magazine – Community Highlights: Meet Jillian Peterson of The Violence Project
- Wall Street Journal – Mass shootings are rising in the U.S., new study shows
- Washington Post – Mass violence takes toll of Americans’ psyches
- Washington Post – Young men, guns, and the prefrontal cortex
- Washington Post – The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings
- WGN News Chicago – The Violence Project: How to stop a mass shooting epidemic
2021 Media
- ABC News – Guys and Guns: Why men are behind the vast majority of America’s gun violence
- Associated Press – Haunted by violence, Colorado confronts painful history (reprinted nationally)
- Associated Press – Idaho shooting: Very few school incidents committed by girls (reprinted nationally)
- Associated Press – How do we prevent mass shootings? There’s a new website to lead the way (reprinted nationally)
- Boston Globe – Boulder, Colo., shooting that killed 10 was deadliest in US in nearly 2 years
- CNN – Locks, lights, out of sight: How lockdown drills affect America’s children
- CNN – Newsroom with Jim Sciutto
- CNN – Newsroom with Pamela Brown
- CNN – ‘Constant state of anxiety.’ Yet another school shooting takes its psychological toll
- C-Span – The Violence Project Book Launch
- Crime Report – Why are almost all mass shooters men?
- Global News – How ending child abuse and improving mental health care could prevent mass shootings
- Guardian – US saw estimated 4,000 extra murders in 2020 amid surge in daily gun violence
- Insider – With schools returning to in person learning, the threat of classroom shootings follows. Here’s how experts say we can prevent them from happening
- KUNM (NPR New Mexico) – No More Normal: Gun violence
- Limestone Press – Preparation versus security in preventing mass shootings
- Mental Health Today – Handling associations between violence crime and mental illness with responsibility
- Minnesota Public Radio – New research finds armed officers increases likelihood of mortality at school shootings
- Monitor on Psychology – Mental illness and violence: Debunking myths, addressing realities
- National Public Radio All Things Considered – School shootings: It’s hard to spot the warning signs. Prevention steps can help
- National Public Radio – Why nearly all mass shooters are men
- National Public Radio Indianapolis – Gun violence and threats are on the rise at Indiana schools
- NBC News – Experts believe a contagion effect could be tied to recent mass shootings
- New York Times – Some U.S. schools close after shooting rumors on social media
- New York Times – Mass shootings in public spaces had become less frequent during the pandemic
- New York Times – I don’t want to hit my children, I don’t want to hit anybody
- New York Times – A heavily armed man at a grocery store adds to anxiety in Atlanta
- New York Times – First Atlanta, then Boulder: Two mass shootings in a week
- People Magazine – After a year without mass shootings in American public places, there have been 2 in 6 days
- Pioneer Press – In a time of pandemic and riot, crime was up 15 percent in St. Paul last year
- PNJ News – “The Violence Project” book investigates mass shootings in order to find solutions
- Publishers Weekly – How to Prevent a Tragedy
- Real Crime Stories Podcast – How to stop a mass shooting epidemic
- Seattle’s Morning News – Armed officers triple mortality in school shootings, study finds
- Star Tribune – Two Minnesota professors have devoted their careers to researching mass shooters
- Star Tribune – Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history
- TBS Radio This Morning (South Korea) – Discussion of the Michigan school shooting and how to avoid such incidents from happening
- Teen Vogue – Supreme Court Second Amendment case puts gun control laws at risk
- The 74 Million – ALICE, American’s most controversial active-shooter training that teaches kids to fight back, saves dozens of lives in Oxford HS attack, CEO Claim
- The 74 Million – After a year without mass school shootings, experts sound the alarm about ‘return to normal’
- The 74 Million – Parkland School Shooting Suspect To Plead Guilty to Murdering 17 in Florida Attack, Moving Case Closer to Death Penalty Decision
- The Trace – The way we think about mass shootings ignores many black victims
- USA Today – Immunization not ammunition: School safety means fewer guns
- USA Today – For the COVID pandemic we wear masks. For the pandemic of gun violence, what do we do?
- Vice News – How to prevent the next mass shooting
- Vice News – The Shooter’s Wife: Noor Salman, wife of the pulse nightclub gunman, is ready to speak
- Vox’s Today Explained Podcast – The Shooter’s Parents
- Wall Street Journal – Boulder shooting suspect charged with 10 counts of murder
- Wall Street Journal – America’s failed attempted to ban assault weapons
- Washington Post – As gun violence spreads to small towns, one suburb contends with a mass shooting’s aftermath
- Washington Post – Rising and spreading murder rates means it’s time to act on guns
- WBEZ Radio Chicago – Atlanta, Boulder tragedies are stark reminder mass shootings may be part of our ‘return to normal’
- Wisconsin Public Radio – How to stop the mass shooting epidemic, according to researchers who have chronicled every mass shooting in the US
- Wisconsin Public Radio – How schools respond to social media threats
- WWL Radio New Orleans – Mass shootings in the US
2020 Media
- ABC Tampa – New database tracks commonalities among mass shooters
- Associated Press – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
- Bloomberg News – Virus job losses, evictions seen risking mass attacks in future
- Business Insider – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
- Finanical Times – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
- KETK Fox News Austin – No mass shootings in the U.S. since the pandemic started – what about once its over?
- LA Times – How many mass shootings might have been prevented by stronger gun laws?
- Minnesota Public Radio – Do police officers belong in schools?
- NBC News – How moms are quietly passing gun safety policy through school boards
- Newsy – Minnesota calls for increased oversight of police training goals
- Post Bulletin – NEA Report: Just say no to active shooter drills
- Star Tribune – Minneapolis police, merchants wary of rise in business burglaries
- The Takeaway – Parents are fighting gun violence through their school boards
- The Trace – 2020 will be a big year for the gun issue
- The Trace – Expanded mass shootings database fleshes out the characteristics of perpetrators
- Vice News – This woman survived a mass shooting and is working to prevent the next
- Voices of America – History of mass shooters
- Washington Post – In a year of pain, one silver lining: Fewer mass shootings
- Yahoo News – Database of mass shooters revised and expanded
- Yahoo News UK – US gun violence: Too many people have died in 2020 – and COVID played a larger part than you think
2019 Media
- ABC News – Campaign says new gun control measures may pose political problem for Trump
- Associated Press – Minnesota Violence Project Aims to Understand Mass Shootings
- Associated Press – Experts: Minnesota strategy on school gun attacks wrong
- The Atlantic – Why many mass shooters are ‘loners’
- Business Insider – Police are trying to arrest their way out of a mass shooting epidemic, and experts warn it could have dire consequences
- CBS News – Video game makers face backlash after El Paso shooting
- CBS News – Mental Illness isn’t main driver of mass shootings, experts say
- CBS This Morning – Commonalities found among mass shooters
- CNN – Companies can use VR to train employees for mass shootings. But should they?
- Daily Mail – Almost all US mass shooters since 1966 have four things in common
- The Daily Wire – Report details stunning amount of free publicity media gives mass shooters
- FiveThirtyEight – Why nonprofits can’t research gun violence as well as the feds
- The Hill – Mass shooters are contagious. How can they be stopped
- Huffington Post – Mass shooters seek ‘validation’ for their murderous attacks, say experts for DOJ
- Inside Higher Ed – Mass Shooter Database?
- Market Watch – Can anything be done to prevent gun violence at work?
- Medium – Why isn’t there already an algorithm to predict school shooters?
- National Public Radio – Mass shootings can be contagious, research shows
- National Public Radio – 1A with Joshua Johnson – How can we prevent workplace shootings?
- NBC News – How suicide prevention may help stop mass killers before they start shooting
- NBC News National – Mass shootings: Experts say violence is contagious, and 24/7 news cycle doesn’t help
- NBC News National – Do Something!’: Mass shootings in Texas and Ohio stun nation: The Morning Rundown
- NBC News MSN – Mass Shootings: Experts say violence is contagious, and 24/7 news cycle doesn’t help
- New York Times – A common trait among mass killers: hatred toward women
- Newsweek – Gen Z, millennials twice as concerned about active shooters as baby boomers, survey
- ProPublica – Aggression detectors: The unproven, invasive surveillance technology school’s are using to monitor students
- Reader’s Digest – Years of research finds that most school shooters have 4 things in common
- Time Magazine – Have police really thwarted more mass shootings since El Paso and Dayton, or are we just paying closer attention?
- The Trace – Daily Bulletin: The FBI Opened a Domestic Terror Investigation into the Gilroy Shooting
- USA Today – A New York village averted a potential school shooting. Parents are still furious.
- Vice – Nearly all mass shooters since 1966 have had 4 things in common
- Wall Street Journal – Lost in life, El Paso suspect found a dark world online
- Wall Street Journal – Mass shootings raise questions about security and training
- Washington Post – Trump blamed mental illness for mass shootings. The reality is more complicated
- Washington Post – Politicians blame video games for the El Paso shooting. It’s an old claim that’s not backed by research
- WITF Smart Talk – Research on mass shooters