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Robots in a lab of a doll factory of EXDOLL, a firm based in China. (Getty/Fred Dufour)

Sexbots aren't the answer to incel rage

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Rager at the end of the world

Kathleen Sharp
Anita Sarkeesian (Wikimedia)

Guns win again

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Richard Martinez (CNN)

"The most horrible thing"

Katie McDonough
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Elliot Rodger (YouTube)

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Tony Perkins (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Perkins blames O'care

Elias Isquith
Elliot Rodger (YouTube)

Elliot Rodger wasn't first

Sophia Kercher
Richard Martinez (CNN)

How to be a hero

Andrew Leonard
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Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (Screen shot, YouTube)

Joe the Plumber on "dead kids"

Elias Isquith
Some flowers are left in front of IV Deli Mart, where part of Friday night's mass shooting took place by a drive-by shooter, on Saturday, May 24, 2014, in Isla Vista, Calif. Alan Shifman, a lawyer who represents Hollywood director Peter Rodger, says the family believes Rodger’s son, Elliot Rodger, was the lone gunman who went on the shooting rampage near the University of California at Santa Barbara. ((AP Photo/Jae C. Hong))

Sarah Gray
Richard Martinez who says his son Christopher Martinez was killed in Friday night's mass shooting that took place in Isla Vista, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Victim's father: Blame NRA

Sarah Gray
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