Why are the mass-shooters always male?

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April 23, 2020 at 8:17 am #113953

wv
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22 dead in Nova Scotia. Guy drove around in a fake police car and gunned down dogs, people. Knocked on doors and gunned down strangers, etc.

Why are they always male?

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murder:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-weapon-lockdown-portapique-1.5537598

“…RCMP say at least 17 people are dead, including one of their officers, after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock-up cruiser went on a rampage across northern Nova Scotia in one of the deadliest rampages in Canadian history.

Police said Sunday night the suspected shooter, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, was killed after being intercepted by officers in Enfield, N.S….”

April 23, 2020 at 10:44 am #113956

Zooey
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I was just speculating about this with my wife last week. The best I could come up with is a generality so broad that it seems useless. But all I could come up with is that males are generally conditioned to respond to problems with coercion, physical coercion being common. Females are conditioned to respond to problems by using emotional manipulation. And as a corollary to that, men – through mass shootings – are seeking to reassert dominance. Women are pretty much conditioned to be accustomed to subordination anyway. So…less need to assert dominance.

That’s all I got.

I’m sure there are better answers out there.

(Though it is worth noting that they are not ALWAYS male).

April 23, 2020 at 10:52 am #113957

JackPMiller
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They are usually white, and conservative(republican voters, which is called here in the US)

April 23, 2020 at 1:06 pm #113960

zn
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It’s like the old joke. Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.
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