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TheProle

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11. Quite.

Reply to Srkdqltr (Reply #10)

Wed Jan 25, 2023, 01:21 PM

Jan 2023

Women shooters are exceedingly rare, but we do ourselves no favors by stating it doesn't happen at all.

Yours is a curious response to a list of facts. Is more knowledge or a clearer understanding a bad thing?

If you're offended by corrections, don't make such absolute and incorrect statements.

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Monterey Park shooter, age 72, is the oldest in the mass shooter database [View all] BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2023 OP

Still all men. Srkdqltr Jan 2023 #1

There was one woman, about 10 or 20 years ago?? She shot a few people BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2023 #2

Proves the point. Srkdqltr Jan 2023 #4

What is the point? Kaleva Jan 2023 #5

Well........maybe.......you think? Srkdqltr Jan 2023 #6

Maybe you write an OP saying only women should have assault weapons Kaleva Jan 2023 #7

No one needs an assault rifle. Except maybe women in the middle east or Ukraine. Srkdqltr Jan 2023 #8

a few woman have killed two of their kids... not meeting the threshold for mass murder BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2023 #16

Vast majority; not all. TheProle Jan 2023 #9

Seriously? Srkdqltr Jan 2023 #10

Quite. TheProle Jan 2023 #11

You can mansplain until you turn purple but the data shows that men, by far, are the mass killers. Srkdqltr Jan 2023 #18

You are absolutely right (in this post) TheProle Jan 2023 #19

"1979: Brenda Spencer - Cleveland Elementary School Shooting, 2 Killed" EX500rider Jan 2023 #12

wow...was it that long ago? I think there was a more recent woman mass shooter BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2023 #14

The album "the fine art of surfacing" came out in 1979 EX500rider Jan 2023 #15

a few women kill two of their kids, not meeting the threshhold. happened today BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 2023 #17

So far. Efilroft Sul Jan 2023 #3

There's a current database maintained by Mother Jones mnhtnbb Jan 2023 #13