American School shootings: Why are the culprits never female?

007Fusion · 24/12/14 - 11:27

What is it about the American system, that drives young men to carry out their frustrations in this way. Yet, females (young girls) suffer the same, but don't perform such high-level acts of violence in the same manner?

ianx · 24/12/14 - 11:30

There was the "I Don't Like Mondays" girl.

Pumping Iron · 24/12/14 - 11:31

Testosterone.

Takae · 24/12/14 - 11:33

^^ Edited: Doh. I moved too slow.

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
the whole day down.

Thanks to Brenda Spencer, a 16-year-old who shot at kids outside a primary school in the U.S.

James Frederick · 24/12/14 - 11:34

ianx wrote: »

There was the "I Don't Like Mondays" girl.

One of the most famous ones always the first one I think of when school shootings happen.

Keiō Line · 24/12/14 - 11:34

007Fusion wrote: »

What is it about the American system, that drives young men to carry out their frustrations in this way. Yet, females (young girls) suffer the same, but don't perform such high-level acts of violence in the same manner?

Nurture, culture and nature.

James Frederick · 24/12/14 - 11:36

Takae wrote: »

^^ Edited: Doh. I moved too slow.

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
the whole day down.

Thanks to Brenda Spencer, a 16-year-old who shot at kids outside a primary school in the U.S.

I have watched a few things about her and she seems to change her story to why she did it every time.

Lyricalis · 24/12/14 - 11:36

The vast majority of males don't either. It's a very small percentage of the population. Regardless of gender, though more males die from this than females as well, suicide is a far bigger killer of young people and yet gets far less attention because the media.

Vulpes · 24/12/14 - 11:40

Females are simply less violent, more rational, and are more likely to seek help for mental illness & other issues they may be facing than males.

Keiō Line · 24/12/14 - 11:47

Vulpes wrote: »

Females are simply less violent, more rational, and are more likely to seek help for mental illness & other issues they may be facing than males.

Not so sure about that one.

Pisces Cloud · 24/12/14 - 11:49

I think women in general tend to find it easier to get things off their chest and so don't let negativity fester.

idlewilde · 24/12/14 - 11:51

Because it is easier for horny and frustrated teenage girls to get laid than it is for the socially awkward boys.

Hank1234 · 24/12/14 - 11:57

Men commit more crime.. Women naturally think about their future kids before commiting acts of crime

AllyourKitty · 24/12/14 - 12:01

Vulpes wrote: »

Females are simply less violent, more rational, and are more likely to seek help for mental illness & other issues they may be facing than males.

I will need to remember that the next time a woman starts telling me about aura fields or Tarot cards or whatever.

Lyricalis · 24/12/14 - 12:06

AllyourKitty wrote: »

I will need to remember that the next time a woman starts telling me about aura fields or Tarot cards or whatever.

Typical Pisces. Well one of those star signs anyway.

Lyricalis · 24/12/14 - 12:09

Vulpes wrote: »

Females are simply less violent, more rational, and are more likely to seek help for mental illness & other issues they may be facing than males.

I'll remember that the next time I see a horde of hormone-infused girls chasing after a pop band.

nanscombe · 24/12/14 - 12:13

Lyricalis wrote: »

I'll remember that the next time I see a horde of hormone-infused girls chasing after a pop band.

Isn't that the wrong way around? Shouldn't that be disgusting, paedophilic male pop stars chasing after innocent, vulnerable young girls.

Vulpes wrote: »

Females are simply less violent, more rational, and are more likely to seek help for mental illness & other issues they may be facing than males.

I think women probably have more devious, less obvious means of exacting revenge on men, sorry I mean people. I doubt some would even recognise a lack of rationality or mental illness and would view their behaviour as sane and/or justified.

William Congreve, in The Mourning Bride, 1697

As you'll answer it, take heed
This Slave commit no Violence upon
Himself. I've been deceiv'd. The Publick Safety
Requires he should be more confin'd; and none,
No not the Princes self, permitted to
Confer with him. I'll quit you to the King.
Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent
The base Injustice thou hast done my Love:
Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress,
And all those Ills which thou so long hast mourn'd;
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

zx50 · 24/12/14 - 12:19

Vulpes wrote: »

Females are simply less violent, more rational, and are more likely to seek help for mental illness & other issues they may be facing than males.

I doubt that.

sodavlac · 24/12/14 - 12:26

When women kill anyone (including themselves) they tend to use guns a lot less than men. They're not big on stabbing either and prefer more indirect/less decisive actions such as poisoning when it comes to murder and overdosing for suicide.

zx50 · 24/12/14 - 12:36

sodavlac wrote: »

When women kill anyone (including themselves) they tend to use guns a lot less than men.

What's that got to do with it? There'll be other methods of killing people that aren't exactly rational either.

rupert_pupkin · 24/12/14 - 12:37

They're more likely to hold on to their rage until they jump off a bridge with their kids or strangle them one by one

sodavlac · 24/12/14 - 12:39

zx50 wrote: »

What's that got to do with it? There'll be other methods of killing people that aren't exactly rational either.

Huh?

We're in a thread asking why females don't go round shooting people in schools.

I'm saying they're statistically less likely to use guns to kill anyone even when they're the type of people who may have it within them to kill, so it stands to reason that they're less likely to use them to shoot people in a school.

Isn't that obvious?

academia · 24/12/14 - 12:52

AllyourKitty wrote: »

I will need to remember that the next time a woman starts telling me about aura fields or Tarot cards or whatever.

I'd rather face a woman clutching tarot cards than an aggressive male psychopath with a shotgun. I suppose that's an irrationsl of mr.

nanscombe · 24/12/14 - 12:59

However you may stand more chance of convincing an aggressive male psychopath not to shoot you than convincing a woman with a pack of tarot cards that she is probably spouting nonsense.

The original reply was in relation to someone stating that women were more rational.

Louise32 · 24/12/14 - 13:33

Women tend to turn depression inwards whereas men are more likely to get angry and turn it outwards.

Having said that someone mentioned the I don't like Mondays girl and obviously there are women killers too so it's possible for women to do as well.

CravenHaven · 24/12/14 - 13:38

Because a rifle represents a realy big penis.
Women aren't usually fixated on a really big penis. But I am available.

Hey there!

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