Shootings in Atlanta and Intersectionality
Shootings in Atlanta On March 16th, 2021, 21-year-old Georgian resident, Robert Aaron Long , went on a shooting rampage in the metropolitan vicinity of Atlanta. During his active shooting period, he went to three different spas and massage parlors and shot and killed eight different people with a gun that was bought legally earlier that day. Six of the eight people that were killed were Asian women. Robert Long claims, however, that these attacks were not racially charged and that he was not a racist. He claims that he was suffering from strong sexual temptation and that the only way to cure his sex addiction was to purge the earth of its temptations. His sex addiction was at odds with his strict evangelical Christian identity and so it took the form of violence on behalf of the people who he saw tempted him into his sex addiction. Unfortunately, due to the fact that Long visited massage parlors when he relapsed in the past, he thought that the main threat to his addiction was As...