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Most Mass Shootings Target Women and Families; Study Finds Men With Legal Guns Are to Blame from AlterNet, 2/24/13

Monday, February 25, 2013

The article reports, “Data suggests that a gun present in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide for women by 500 percent… A new analysis of 56 mass shootings across America since 2009 finds women and family members are the most frequent victims, and that the shooter almost always acquired his guns legally, in cases where the gun source is known.”

View the full article at: http://www.alternet.org/most-mass-shootings-target-women-and-families-study-finds-men-legal-guns-are-blame?akid=10104.281158.0wegD2&rd=1&src=newsletter799811&t=5