2006-10-04 A Pattern in Rural School Shootings: Girls as Targets

2006-10-04 \misogyny\gun violence\school shootings http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1004/p01s01-usgn.html A Pattern in Rural School Shootings: Girls as Targets &ldquo;"The predominant pattern in school shootings of the past three decades is that girls are the victims," says Katherine Newman, a Princeton University sociologist whose recent book examines the roots of "rampage" shootings in rural schools. .. Dr. Newman has researched 21 school shootings since the 1970s. Though it's impossible to know whether girls were randomly victimized in those cases, she says, "in every case in the US since the early 1970s we do note this pattern" of girls being the majority of victims.&rdquo;   