According to The Violence Project database, women make up just 2% of mass shooters across the country.
The gunman, who police have only
, shot dead three children and three adults when she stormed into the The Covenant School armed with two assault-style rifles and a pistol.According to The Violence ProjectBrenda Spencer was just 16 when she opened fire at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego in 1979, killing two and injuring eight.The database, which hasn’t yet accounted for the Nashville shooting, shows that just four of the 191 mass shootings it has tracked had been carried out by females.
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