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Instant prejudice: Korea and Virginia Tech

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    Gender

    24 out of the last 25 school shooters were male (forgot the source but I read it yesterday) and the one that was female only injured another female. So this is an issue of masculinity and violence. Secondarily, mental health and race-specific mental health, because most mentally ill people do not kill people.

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