A former NY Mets pitcher’s brother argued with his wife in the parking lot of a Cuban restaurant in Miami, then pulled out a .45 and shot her dead. After killing his wife, from whom he had recently separated, he entered the restaurant and opened fire on the women inside, killing three and wounding three others. He may have known a couple of the women he shot in the restaurant, but it appears that he targeted several simply for being women.
After the rampage, the man drove a few blocks down the street, and then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
Murders, suicides and other acts of violence have become routine events during marital conflicts in the United States. Usually, as we have often pointed out, the man simply commits suicide (which is rarely reported) or gets himself shot by a cop, but it appears that men are increasingly lashing out at others, perhaps due to a feeling of hopelessness and rage engendered by the domination of women so triumphantly announced by Hanna Rosin in her recent piece in The Atlantic.
When men are put under extreme pressure, such as the prospect of losing everything they care about in a pending divorce, violence is to be expected in a certain number of cases. This has always been the case, and has a great deal to do with the development of the institution of marriage as a sort of “guarantee” that assured men that they would not be subjected to the kind of emotional stressors that cause them to act out with aggression. To assume that human nature can be changed simply by passing a few laws is the greatest folly, and I expect untold numbers of people to lose their lives for the thoughtless rejection of ancient laws that feminists demanded.
Rather than a utopia, feminism is edging us closer to a chaotic society in which violence simmers and crackles under the lid of a badly strained criminal justice system. The real injustices that feminists write off as irrelevant will have real consequences, and will result in real tragedies, such as this latest killing spree in Florida.
