Real Men Saved Lives in Thousand Oaks
‘I’m here to protect my friends, my family, my fellow humans,’ Matt Wennerstrom said.
The mass shooting at a Thousand Oaks, Calif., bar last week was a tale of men and masculinity. The alleged killer was a 28-year old Marine corporal who had completed a tour in Afghanistan in June 2011. After a brief marriage, which dissolved during his service, he returned to California and moved back in with his mother. He pursued a sports-medicine degree but dropped out because, by his own account, a patient had talked down to him and bruised his ego. Neighbors called police several times, alarmed by the menacing racket of his fights with his mother. One neighbor reported the walls inside were “full of holes,” as if...