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A screenshot from the Twitter page @yesallwomen.

(A screenshot from Twitter.com)

In May 2014, after seven people near the University of California at Santa Barbara university were killed by a gun upset that women had had the nerve to reject him, Twitter lit up with the hashtag #yesallwomen. The point of the campaign was easy to understand: What had happened to the women in California could have happened to any woman because there's always the chance that a man will respond violently to a woman who tells him to get lost or even respond violently to a man who politely tells him no.

Some men had the audacity to be offended at the campaign and wanted a hashtag that would make it clear that not all men menace women. Because, to them, a man's fear that somebody might wrongly think of him as bad is as important as a stack of dead women's bodies.

Proving once again that all women have reason to be concerned, a 29-year-old mother in Pittsburgh was fatally shot Friday morning by a man whose romantic advances she'd rebuffed. Witnesses told police that near closing time Janese Jackson-Talton was approached by 41-year-old Charles McKinney inside the bar near closing time. She reportedly ignored him. Later, when she walked out to her car, McKinney reportedly followed her and fired a fatal shot into her chest.

Some reports have said that Jackson-Talton was the mother of two children. Damon Young, who writes at verysmartbrothas.com and theroot.com, says that he knows the victim's brother and that she had twin daughters and a 1-year-old son.

However many children she leaves behind - two or three - the fact remains that her killing is an outrage. Her killing must strike terror into the heart of every woman who wants to go out and have a good time, every woman who doesn't want to be bothered by a guy asking her for her phone number or asking to buy her a drink.

Predictably, some people have responded to the news of Jackson-Talton's murder with the standard advice that women should always go out in pairs and not visit clubs and bars at night by themselves.

Women have every right to do that. They have every right to go out by themselves whenever they want to. They shouldn't have to buddy up to prevent one another's murder, rape or robbery.

Young, the aforementioned blogger, wrote about Jackson-Talton in a post with the headline "Her Name was Janese Talton-Jackson. And She Was Killed Because She Said 'No.'" Young says the "only relevant question" after the young mother's murder is ""What can and should men do to stop men from doing this?"

He's right.

The problem is not women. The problem is not what women are doing. The problem is men and what men are doing.

And that problem keeps women wondering if they're being shown will turn into a snarl. It keeps them fearful that saying "no" may send a man into a murderous rage.

You can read Damon Young's full piece here: "Her Name was Janese Talton-Jackson. And She Was Killed Because She Said 'No.'" (The piece includes some strong language near the end.)

Jarvis DeBerry can be reached at jdeberry@nola.com. Follow him at twitter.com/jarvisdeberry.