Right behind the arrival of news from the US about a mass-shooting in Arkansas, there was one also from Germany.

Of all the news sources I've listened to (being in this part of the world, there are quite a few, and that's before I start to read on the Internet), I've only learned from the Belgian news service that of the 15 vicitms, 11 of them were female.

I'm feeling another re-read of The Gift of Fear coming on, this time with an eye towards the role of gender-hate in the choices of the perpetrators. Alas, apart from a desire to find the magic that'll make it all better, I don't see much better in that than in my own dedication to language study.

Edited to add: hat-tip to ginmar, who points out the New York Times article; second mention of the gender composition of the victims.