Why are most shooters men?

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The Us had additional mass shootings over the past few days. Three innocent people were shot and killed in State College, Pennsylvania; a forth remains in the hospital. That shooter later killed himself. Five women were gunned down in a Florida bank; that shooter is in police custody. The most recent in Louisiana resulted in five deaths; that shooter is still at large.

The one thing that connects all these shootings is that the killer was male. In fact, men have been responsible for almost all mass shootings.

What is wrong here? What are we teaching (or not teaching) our sons that we are apparently teaching (or not teaching) our daughters? More importantly, how do we stop this?

At least two of these shootings involved girlfriends/ex-girlfriends. Again, what are we teaching our young men that apparently makes them think that they have an ownership interest in their girlfriend/ex-girlfriend?

I would ask why we make guns, particularly semi-automatic guns, so readily available in our nation but I know where those discussions go, so please keep away from that issue.
It has been since the beginning with Cain. He lost his countenance, moral composure, and resorted to rising up against his brother. Thank God not all men loose their composure to the point of murder but it is clear that the first murder was committed by a young male and continues till this day as the most disturbing reality.
 
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It has been since the beginning with Cain. He lost his countenance, moral composure, and resorted to rising up against his brother. Thank God not all men loose their composure to the point of murder but it is clear that the first murder was committed by a young male and continues till this day as the most disturbing reality.
The facts that i have heard are that women are less likely to use a gun for suicide and murder. They prefer fire and poison over firearms. Ever watched the TV show Snapped? Lots of woman killers on that show.
 
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I wonder what has caused this increase. It seems very odd.

Ya know, I'm not sure. The key is with the youth perhaps and the change in lifestyle or upbringing I would think. The only difference in the years is a change in society perhaps. That is an interesting question.
 
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A flip, and totally unhelpful, answer.
Not at all. It's the simple and definitive answer. Clearly it didn't help you, so YOU chose to be rude and flippant.
 
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Ya know, I'm not sure. The key is with the youth perhaps and the change in lifestyle or upbringing I would think. The only difference in the years is a change in society perhaps. That is an interesting question.
It could be the answer to why they kill. If we can find out the cause we might be able to do something about it.
 
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The Us had additional mass shootings over the past few days. Three innocent people were shot and killed in State College, Pennsylvania; a forth remains in the hospital. That shooter later killed himself. Five women were gunned down in a Florida bank; that shooter is in police custody. The most recent in Louisiana resulted in five deaths; that shooter is still at large.

The one thing that connects all these shootings is that the killer was male. In fact, men have been responsible for almost all mass shootings.

What is wrong here? What are we teaching (or not teaching) our sons that we are apparently teaching (or not teaching) our daughters? More importantly, how do we stop this?

At least two of these shootings involved girlfriends/ex-girlfriends. Again, what are we teaching our young men that apparently makes them think that they have an ownership interest in their girlfriend/ex-girlfriend?

I would ask why we make guns, particularly semi-automatic guns, so readily available in our nation but I know where those discussions go, so please keep away from that issue.
It has nothing to do with guns and much to do with testosterone and the fact that men are meant to be the moral leader, the one who rights wrongs, who protects, etc. And each of those killers were in some manner acting out that duty, in their minds, slaying some dragon, righting some perceived wrong in their woefully confused state of delusion, and in the process fulfilling their role as they desperately make their self-statement.

All evil, in fact, is performed by someone actually trying to obtain some perceived good, and who, generally speaking, has convinced themselves of the rightness of their act, in the moment of committing it at least, so basic is the imperative for us to be right. ISIS commits evil in the name of God, for example. All evil is compelled by human self-righteousness and the pride that fuels it. All evil is ultimately the result of spiritual separation from God. Just as a glutton twists and abuses the natural role of food in our lives, male killers have twisted their natural role of physical and spiritual and moral leadership into a platform for proclaiming their own godhood, as the original sin of Adam was to take that role on himself, which precipitated the separation from God which is the root of all of our problems to begin with.
 
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Did testosterone increase over the years like the killings have? Something changed and we need to know what.

Maybe this article opens that door slightly by methods of deduction reasoning. This article states that domestic mass shootings has not increased but public shootings has, Shooting of complete strangers: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/mass-public-shootings-increasing-in-us/

Harvard points out that they don't know why these killings have increased. But suggests that copycat killings may be partly responsible and news coverage promoted it.

Interestingly they point out Austrlia's success in gun regulation.
 
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Men tend to express their anger in a physical way.
Women tend to express their anger in a psychological way.
You must not be married to an Italian-American woman from NY. I’m always ducking projectiles. ^_^
 
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Did testosterone increase over the years like the killings have? Something changed and we need to know what.
Mothers no longer raise their sons.

Daycare factories do.
 
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Men have fewer emotional outlets and many cannot cry.
Maybe we should force all men to watch “Old Yeller”?

Is making men blubbering sentimentals the answer?

What’s really at work here is younger males have bought into the postmodern religion of nihilism.

When there is nothing more than this world and this life in the flesh people get desperate.
 
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The Us had additional mass shootings over the past few days. Three innocent people were shot and killed in State College, Pennsylvania; a forth remains in the hospital. That shooter later killed himself. Five women were gunned down in a Florida bank; that shooter is in police custody. The most recent in Louisiana resulted in five deaths; that shooter is still at large.

The one thing that connects all these shootings is that the killer was male. In fact, men have been responsible for almost all mass shootings.

What is wrong here? What are we teaching (or not teaching) our sons that we are apparently teaching (or not teaching) our daughters? More importantly, how do we stop this?

At least two of these shootings involved girlfriends/ex-girlfriends. Again, what are we teaching our young men that apparently makes them think that they have an ownership interest in their girlfriend/ex-girlfriend?

I would ask why we make guns, particularly semi-automatic guns, so readily available in our nation but I know where those discussions go, so please keep away from that issue.
This all happened after the sexual revolution and the disintegration of the family structure.
 
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If that is the answer, why do Amish men not engage in mass killings?
Well, that's a question for a sociologist.
My personal opinion would be that the Amish have so many fear based deterrents in place, such as shunning, excommunication, etc, that keep people in line. Also, I'd imagine that they don't have the catalysts to begin with, such as the internet, inappropriate content, alcoholic parents, etc.
 
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If that is the answer, why do Amish men not engage in mass killings?
They have clean living and most importantly a mother (female) and father (male) parent unit in holy matrimony.
 
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Maybe we should force all men to watch “Old Yeller”?

Is making men blubbering sentimentals the answer?

What’s really at work here is younger males have bought into the postmodern religion of nihilism.

When there is nothing more than this world and this life in the flesh people get desperate.
True.
 
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Maybe a biological factor is involved here? I don't know... Maybe something like testosterone? I could just be guessing here... It's almost like men are more prone to be aggressive as God created them and women are just... evil in a more passive and manipulative form.

Now lets ask the question why 60 million babies have been aborted by women in the USA alone.
 
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