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khjuu · 3434 days ago · link · · parent · post: There have been 204 mass shootings — and 204 days — in 2015 so far
Honestly, the percent of these shooters who are men is almost as high as the percent of these shooters who used guns, and the percentage of white men isn't massively far off, either, especially if you include Hispanic men. I'm just quickly glancing through. But most of the high body count ones are straight men killing wives, girlfriends, former bosses... It sounds like male entitlement. The answer is not to fix guns or mental illness, the answer to this (and a bunch of other problems) is to fix sexism. Edit: Actually, does anyone know if someone's looked at data for race, gender, primary targets, etc.? I'd have the time to put it into a graph myself (at least for 2015) but I assume someone's already thought to do that.