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"A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women" ....................................

“Most mass shooters have a history of domestic or family violence in their background. It’s an important red flag ... A professed hatred of women is frequent among suspects in the long history of mass shootings in America ... a number of these men have identified as so-called incels, short for involuntary celibates, an online subculture of men who express rage at women for denying them sex. ................................................

Federal law prohibits people convicted of certain domestic violence crimes, and some abusers who are subject to protective orders, from buying or owning guns. But there are many loopholes, and women in relationships who are not married to, do not live with, or have children with their abusers receive no protection ... In a case that highlights the so-called boyfriend loophole, in 2016, a man who had been convicted of stalking a girlfriend he had briefly dated shot the girlfriend and her three children. His conviction did not prevent him from having or purchasing guns ... Federal law also does not provide a mechanism for actually removing guns from abusers, and only some states have enacted such procedures ... The National Rifle Association, the nation’s largest gun lobby, has opposed efforts to expand the situations in which individuals accused of abuse can lose the right to own guns, saying that doing so would deny people due process and punish people for behavior that is not violent." .................................................................................

How is stalking a woman either not violent or a threat of violence? What on earth can we do to get around all the loopholes and opposition to gun control?