The gunman who shot and killed a mother and her teenage daughter in Perth's affluent western suburbs did so because he thought his ex-partner was at the property.
You believe that he would not walk away but shoot the people (father and son)? Or that the would have walked away and not shot them? Or that a woman would not have done that? Or any other way to interpret the last sentence?
I think they mean that, because he was there to commit violence to someone else and just killed whoever happened to be in the house, it’s not a good example of gendered violence against women since he probably would have killed a man who answered the door too (not walk away without killing anyone).
I’d say that it’s actually a pretty good example though since, he was trying to find his ex-wife. Presumably to kill her. So an example of a violent man targeting a woman and then killing other women instead… It’s something that’s been in Australian news a lot lately with the recent protests following a depressingly large number of women killed by their partners so far this year.
You believe that he would not walk away but shoot the people (father and son)? Or that the would have walked away and not shot them? Or that a woman would not have done that? Or any other way to interpret the last sentence?
I think they mean that, because he was there to commit violence to someone else and just killed whoever happened to be in the house, it’s not a good example of gendered violence against women since he probably would have killed a man who answered the door too (not walk away without killing anyone).
I’d say that it’s actually a pretty good example though since, he was trying to find his ex-wife. Presumably to kill her. So an example of a violent man targeting a woman and then killing other women instead… It’s something that’s been in Australian news a lot lately with the recent protests following a depressingly large number of women killed by their partners so far this year.