Amid criticisms that Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission has been far too reticent to criticize police actions amidst Canada’s deadliest mass shooting, this week the inquiry took a different focus: the role of “masculinity.”
“Our research suggests that mass shootings are a gendered issue: they fundamentally have to do with the relationship between men, masculinity, and guns,” read the report tabled this week by the inquiry.
Mass Shootings and Masculinity, drafted by two University of California sociologists, told the commissioners that mass shootings are inherently “enactments of masculinity,” and that in addition to curbing gun ownership, governments must pursue “cultural change.”
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