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Soraya Chemaly on Mass Shootings: “Focus Should Be on Boys & Men Who Can’t Take No for an Answer”
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8:21Now PlayingAs details surface about the school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, Friday that left 10 dead, a familiar pattern has emergedThe shooter was a white male who had been rejected by a female classmate. The mother of Shana Fisher, one of the victims in the art classroom where police say 17yearold Dimitrios Pagourtzis entered and opened fire, told the Los Angeles Times that her 16yearold daughter “had 4 months of problems from this boy. … He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no.” Sadie Rodriguez said her daughter recently stood up to Pagourtzis in class, and “a week later he opens fire on everyone he didn’t like.” The Santa Fe shooting could be the second school shooting in recent months driven by such rejection. In March, 16yearold Jaelynn Willey was shot in the head at Great Mills High School by 17yearold Austin Wyatt Rollins after she had ended their relationship. Her injuries left her brain dead. She later died after she was taken off life support by her family. We are joined by Soraya Chemaly, a journalist who covers the intersection of gender and politics. She is the director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project.
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