Australians will already be aware of the murder-suicide shooting in Margaret River in WA -
www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/11/margaret-river-shooting-mother-and-her-four-children-among-victims
Two women (mother and daughter) and four children (the children/grandchildren) all shot by their husband/father/grandfather, who then turned the gun on himself.
While obviously not wishing to make anything more difficult for the extended family and friends (if such a thing were even possible - God knows what hell the children’s father is going through right now), the question is still what the fuck are we going to do about the scourge of male violence against women and children that plagues our societies?
The papers are full of questions as to why on earth this man could have killed his whole family, what was he going through that we don’t know about?
Personally I think these are the wrong questions.
In a tragedy like this we are often hesitant to lay blame or even to talk much about what has happened, seeing it as being in poor taste.
I reject that and I think that until we as a society address what’s going on and do something to stop male violence, we are going to see this happen over and over and over again.
But where on earth to begin?
I just feel so angry tbh.