Letter: Something else mass shootings have in common
(Sue Ogrocki | AP) High School students Celeste Lujan, left, and Yasmin Natera mourn their friend Leilah Hernandez, one of the victims of the Saturday shooting in Odessa, at a memorial service Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, in Odessa, Texas.
Charlotte Maloney’s excellent letter (“Gun owners would not be punished by legal limits,” Aug. 31) noted that ”The one common denominator in every single mass shooting is the gun.”
There is actually one more common denominator: According to Statistica, 98% of mass shootings between January 1982 and August 2019 were carried about by males.
Candace Jacobson, Provo
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