That doesn't mean women don't kill, that killing is a gendered problem, or even that women are accurately represented in statistics for murders (just as with sexual assault, people assume men are more likely perps so they investigate men first -- and with child sexual assault we know for certainty that women are underrepresented in statistics because of under-reporting as merely one factor).
Yes, most often men will choose to use a more effective means to accomplish a death, be it suicide or homicide, thsn women. That may be because they are more familiar with firearms, have more strength to accomplish other more violent, effective methods like knives/other physical force, etc, but it's what makes men who attempt suicide more likely to die from it, despite more women making attempts.
But if you want death counts, look at some of the women serial killers out there. They might not do it with firearms, they might do it with drugs they have access to as nurses, etc, but they can hit a high body count before getting caught simply because they aren't suspected. How many are never caught? How many of the unidentified men murdered out there were killed by women? Since we don't know their assailants, we'll never know until they get their names back. And there are a LOT of unidentified male murder vics in NamUS.
Also, ffs, I used to own a gun. Every woman in my family knows how to shoot and most have their CHLs even if they don't regularly carry. My second cousin prefers to use her bow to bring down deer. We might be more responsible with our weapons and less inclined to do a "hold my beer" compared to a few idiots I've met who had CHLs as well, but that's probably because we listened to the people teaching us about them a little more closely.
The only people I know who have actually fired weapons at other people outside of warfare or line-of-duty work as officers have been women, too. One shot her husband in the hand during an argument and he lied about how it happened (this was from her lips) because he thought he deserved it for what he said, and the other got off five rounds before her .22 jammed. She faced attempted murder charges but was acquitted. I think *she* was justified, but still... the other certainly was overreacting.
You want to use this as an excuse to scapegoat men for sociopathic violence, and unintentionally contribute to the idea that women are helpless creatures who need these big violent men to protect us from other big violent men? You can do it without this feminist.
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