Daily Dot reporter Beth Elderkin turns to Assistant Professor of Sociology Michael Rocque for a story headlined “Why are almost all active shooters men?:” The story explores the fact that this country’s active-shooter cases “tend not to have that much in common-except one thing,” Elderkin writes. “Almost every shooter has been a man.”

For more about this story, Daily Dot quotes sociologist Michael Rocque on the link between gender and active-shooter events from the Bates News.