{"id":914,"date":"2014-11-21T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/?p=914"},"modified":"2026-01-26T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T16:05:08","slug":"daily-dot-quotes-sociologist-michael-rocque-on-the-link-between-gender-and-active-shooter-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/2014\/11\/21\/daily-dot-quotes-sociologist-michael-rocque-on-the-link-between-gender-and-active-shooter-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are almost all active shooters men?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Dot reporter Beth Elderkin turns to Assistant Professor of Sociology Michael Rocque for a story headlined &#8220;Why are almost all active shooters men?:&#8221; The story explores the fact that this country&#8217;s active-shooter cases &#8220;tend not to have that much in common-except one thing,&#8221; Elderkin writes. &#8220;Almost every shooter has been a man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more about this story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/11\/21\/daily-dot-quotes-sociologist-michael-rocque-on-the-link-between-gender-and-active-shooter-events\/http:\/\/\">Daily Dot quotes sociologist Michael Rocque on the link between gender and active-shooter events<\/a> from the Bates News.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Dot reporter Beth Elderkin turns to Assistant Professor of Sociology Michael&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}