Men. The Mass Shooters Are MEN. There's something wrong with men. American men.
There are no absolute certainties when it comes to mass killers, but a few things come close... the murderer will—with more than a 98% certainty—be male.
http://time.com/114128/elliott-rodgers-ucsb-santa-barbara-shooter/
Men commit over 85% of all homicides, 91% of all same-sex homicides and 97% of all same-sex homicides in which the victim and killer aren’t related to each other.
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/if-you-give-man-gun-evolutionary-psychology-mass-shootings/
Garbarino points to a variety of factors, including a gene that researchers believe impairs some men's ability to deal with stressful situations, such as abusive families. Other factors include the prevalence and glorification of male violence in media and a culture of "toxic masculinity."
"This is vitally important," Gabarino writes , "because as a society, we often 'promote' the various socially toxic cultural messages to which boys and men are exposed—racism, misogyny, the belief that 'it is better to be mad than to be sad.'"
“After I picked up the handgun,” he explained, “I brought it back to my room and felt a new sense of power. Who’s the alpha male now, bitches?”
Mass Shooter = Low-Dominant Loser?
Young male violence is most likely to be initiated by young men who don’t command respect from others. They’ll often feel like slighted outcasts, deprived of what they want or feel they deserve.
http://www.iflscience.com/brain/if-you-give-man-gun-evolutionary-psychology-mass-shootings/
There is no shortage of explanations for the overwhelming maleness of the monster population. Some of the answers reveal a lot—and yet nothing at all. Testosterone fuels aggression. Stipulated. Boys take longer to mature than girls. Stipulated. And like the forebrains of young females, those of young males are not fully myelinated until the late 20s or even early 30s. The forebrain is where executive functions—impulse control, reflection, awareness of consequences—live. In the case of males, who are already trip-wired for aggression, that provides a lot of years to behave badly.
There are, too, the social factors: violent video games, a culture of physical aggression fueled by contact sports and the general tendency of all societies to turn their men into hunters and warriors, putting those jobs off-limits to women or at least making them optional.
But there's more, and a lot of it has to do with status. Males, for better or worse, are ferociously protective of their position in any tribe, community, or society, and any threat to that position goes to the core of their identity and self-esteem. It's a common observation in times of recession that while loss of a job is miserable for both genders, it's the males who are likelier to become completely undone by it. Without the role of worker and money-earner, men feel hollowed-out, and that too often calls for revenge. it's not for nothing that the victims in workplace shootings are often managers who just the month before demoted or sacked the shooter.
As Candice Batton, director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, told NPR in the wake of the 2013 Washington Navy Yard shootings:
"Some research supports the idea that males are more likely than females to develop negative attributions of blame that are external in nature, that is: 'The cause ... of my problems is someone else or some force outside of me'. And this translates into anger and hostility toward others."
[Women], on the other hand, "are more likely to develop negative attributions of blame that are internal in nature, that is: 'The cause of my problems is some failing of my own: I didn't try hard enough, I'm not good enough."
http://time.com/114128/elliott-rodgers-ucsb-santa-barbara-shooter/
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In Evolution, Nature, what is know as the " Aggression Chemical " and which gender has it and why?
So Blame evolution, and that fix it right?
Oh, I think the article is spot on! Boys are taught from an early age to protect and to stand tall in the face of danger. Men have always been the hunter providing food and warmth for his family. "Be a man" they are told. "Man up" they are told. Men were the ones on the battlefields.
Just like the article said....when a man loses his job he takes it as a personal failure much more than a woman. A man's ego is very fragile. Stand tall; comfort the women, but you mustn't show emotion.
I can thoroughly understand why it is men who can become so violent vs women.
Oh well... Let's just ban all men then.