Most Mass Shootings Target Women and Families; Study Finds Men With Legal Guns Are to Blame

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45. Let'd take a close look at those numbers.

We had sufficient evidence to judge whether the shooter was a prohibited gun possessor in 42 of the 56 incidents,” the report said, referring to laws barring ex-felons, mentally ill people, drug addicts and other categories of people from owning guns. “Of those 42 incidents, 15 (36 percent) involved a prohibited possessor and 27 (64 percent) did not.”

What percentage of the population is prohibited from owning a gun? I don't have a number but I am confident that is way less than 36%.

What percentage of the population can legally own a gun? Almost everybody over age 21. Way more than 64%.

So the prohibited population that illegally has a gun is strongly disproportionately represented in that total. It takes the huge total of all legal gun owners to get almost twice the number of incidents.

Lesson: If a woman is living with a violent criminal she is in danger, whether he has a gun or not. The most dangerous time is within six months of leaving such a person.

If her male partner is a law-abiding type and hasn't shown any violent tendencies, then she is very safe, even if he has guns.

We who are pro-gun rights do NOT claim that ONLY criminals abuse guns. We do claim that it is rare, but does sometimes happen, for a previously law-abiding person to commit murder as his first serious offense.