{"id":304241,"date":"2026-02-18T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304241\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:30:31","slug":"brenda-power-if-male-murderers-like-the-canadian-shooter-are-described-as-female-crime-statistics-are-meaningless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/304241\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenda Power: If male murderers like the Canadian shooter are described as female, crime statistics are meaningless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAgenda being stealthily advanced by media and political cowardice must be challenged\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge in Canada. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/A-SHOOTING (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge in Canada. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Since 1979, there have been just two school shootings carried out by teenage females in the United States, claiming a total of four lives. There have been none in Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">So the news, as reported by RT\u00c9\u2019s Morning \u00adIreland last Wednesday, that a woman had shot dead eight people in a Canadian school was shockingly historic for two reasons. Not only was it one of the worst school shootings in that country\u2019s history, but also the deadliest ever, in North America, by a teenage female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agenda being stealthily advanced by media and political cowardice must be challenged A memorial for the victims of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[6130,103,61,60,47232,410,411,6085,3415],"class_list":{"0":"post-304241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-claire-byrne","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kevin-bakhurst","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mentalhealth","15":"tag-rte","16":"tag-sinn-fein"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}