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Why do men who kill their families still receive sympathetic news coverage?

  • Written by Denise Buiten, Senior Lecturer in Social Justice and Sociology, University of Notre Dame Australia
Why do men who kill their families still receive sympathetic news coverage?Rick Egan/AP/The Salt Lake Tribune

As the number of mass shootings in the United States this year continues to grow, so too have family murder-suicides. It is only February, and already at least three families have been shot and killed by men who took their own lives afterwards, following a string of similar such killings in 2022.

While public mass...

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