'NO F*CKING WAY!!!!!' WaPo drops major BOMBSHELL about mass shooters

Well, here’s a post-Sutherland-Springs-shooting take that’ll make you think:

There are only two nearly universal characteristics of mass shooters: They're men and they use guns https://t.co/lEXlpThKwE

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 6, 2017

WaPo’s Philip Bump concludes:

Advocates for reducing gun violence, then, are left in an unfortunate position. There are often warning signs that can be addressed before a shooter decides to open fire, but there often aren’t. There are demographic factors that seem to recur — but not universally. The one consistent factor is that the shooter has access to a firearm, and that’s perhaps the one factor that has proven politically impossible to overcome.

OK, first of all:

GP How can something be "nearly universal?" Seems it's either universal or it's not. Sort of like being "kind of pregnant." https://t.co/4Zjc0o2ADU

— The Gormogons (@Gormogons) November 6, 2017

And second of all, weird wording aside, what, exactly, is so profound or surprising about the idea that mass shooters use guns?

https://twitter.com/mark_earnest/status/927576567437512705

Shooters use guns? What a surprise.

— Aryon (@AnElvishMale) November 6, 2017

Shooters use guns? So insightful.

— Drip Dailey ?? (@DaileyOfficial) November 6, 2017

https://twitter.com/OneAmericaWins/status/927577360878260229

https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/927585816645431299

It’d be pretty hard to commit a mass shooting without a gun…

— Jordan Parker (@jordanparker_) November 6, 2017

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Please name me one mass shooter who doesn’t use a gun….

— Señor Don Gato (@astewartfs) November 6, 2017

Ah yes, a common characteristic of shooters is that they use guns. I hear fishermen use fishing rods too.

— Eli ? (@elizidel9) November 6, 2017

Wait, so shooters don't use bubbles or marshmallows? I'm stunned, I tell you. Stunned.

— juli spice (@ImJuliCaldwell) November 6, 2017

Mass shooters need to switch to non-lethal throwing swords. Thanks Washpo. You’re helping.

— Wittorical (@Wittorical) November 6, 2017

https://twitter.com/Il_Male_Tiranno/status/927629052545921024

It's brilliant that WP caught what I'm sure everyone else missed: mass shooters always have guns.

— William R. Bowen (@Bibowen) November 6, 2017

https://twitter.com/ProgDisorder/status/927598677698404352

I see #Pulitzer in the future for your headline writer.

— Ben Strange (@BenStrange) November 6, 2017