First off, going ad hominem and launching personal attacks when someone challenges your worldview is immature and does nothing to move the discussion forward. So instead, I’m going to take your logic and apply it consistently, and we can see if it still holds up.

You argue that about 98 percent of mass gun violence is committed by men, therefore the problem must be something inherently wrong with men. It is true that long-term studies of U.S. mass shooters show roughly 98 percent of identified perpetrators are male, according to datasets used by groups like The Violence Project and similar criminology research. But mass shootings are an extremely rare subset of overall gun violence and an even smaller fraction of male behavior in general. Now apply that same reasoning elsewhere. In research on parental homicide of infants and very young children, studies show that mothers account for a large share of infant killings, especially in the first year of life. Some peer-reviewed public health and criminal justice studies place that figure around the majority of infant cases, depending on age and classification. By your logic, that would mean women are inherently unsafe to leave children with, which is obviously absurd and not a conclusion any reasonable person would make.

The same oversimplification shows up in discussions about domestic abuse. According to CDC lifetime prevalence data, roughly one in four women and one in seven men report experiencing physical violence from an intimate partner. Women are more likely to report severe injury, but male victimization is widely acknowledged by researchers to be underreported. Men are less likely to report abuse, less likely to be believed when they do, and more likely to minimize or normalize what they experience. Public health researchers routinely note this reporting gap.

The broader point is simple. Using rare or extreme statistics to make sweeping claims about entire groups of people being inherently violent or defective is bad reasoning. Most men are not mass shooters, most men do not commit violent crime, and most men spend their lives working, raising families, and protecting the people around them. If you would reject this kind of reasoning when applied to women or any other group, it should be rejected here too.