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Why are School shooters always male?

Dan From Smithville

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I live in the poor areas of cities so usually most of the shootings and crimes come from minorities, so maybe there is a link between different ethnicities being more likely to commit different types of crimes, and of course poverty.
I think the link is largely just with poverty. I grew up in a predominantly white region and the crime was predominantly committed by poor white people with low educations.
 

Dan From Smithville

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I'm sure there must be some exceptions to the rule.

I haven't googled it to find exceptions but I'm sure they exist.

However, every school shooter that I can recall hearing about here in America has been male.

Why do you think that is, and do you think testosterone plays a large role in it?

(I remember living in a foster home that was a farm, and much of the bad behavior seen in bulls, was prevented if you removed their testicles at a young age. I'm not suggesting that is a solution, but interesting nonetheless how much having balls affects a mammals behavior.)
There are female school shooters, but they are less than 5% of the total.
 

Shaul

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Not only are they (mostly) male and (mostly) white, they mostly seem to be or have had a christian upbringing.

As to castration, probability would work but a bugger to have to remove the testicles of every male to ensure you got every one who would turn shooter.

An alternative method, perhaps as effective is change the law to guarantee that every school shooter will be castrated at the neck.
And I heard that every single person that had an abortion has been female. Should we spay ever female?
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I'm sure there must be some exceptions to the rule.

I haven't googled it to find exceptions but I'm sure they exist.

However, every school shooter that I can recall hearing about here in America has been male.

Why do you think that is, and do you think testosterone plays a large role in it?

(I remember living in a foster home that was a farm, and much of the bad behavior seen in bulls, was prevented if you removed their testicles at a young age. I'm not suggesting that is a solution, but interesting nonetheless how much having balls affects a mammals behavior.)
Probably because there's a shared hatred towards females from what people are saying.

A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women
 

MikeDwight

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Everybody's out of place in college. Whatever. No why would you have to meet or note one woman to want to kill all of them? Because there are 13 oscillations at the beginning of Ornette Coleman's Tribes of New York? OH!
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
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From article from The Conversation


"Our initial analysis of the school shooting data found some noteworthy patterns. All of the K-12 school shooters or would-be school shooters were..."
Its a pretty interesting article showing commonalities between most of the shooters. 87 percent showed signs of crisis ahead of time "Often on social media."

"
Two years before he lined his schoolmates up against a classroom wall and executed them one by one, the student, who would become the gunman, tried to show his English teacher something important. He had quietly slid up his sleeves to reveal the cut marks running down his arms. The teacher panicked. A novice educator at the time, she had never been coached or trained in what to do in these situations, what to say or how to help. So she passed the student off to another teacher, who then filed a form with the principal’s office. She felt fairly certain nothing else came of it...."

Its an interesting article and goes into detail on many commonalities between the shooters.

Its a good idea to watch the movie "Bowling for Columbine" or to read the script. It brings up some additional conversation points. You can see some of the issues that create the atmosphere which lead to this: disparity, hopelessness, focus on tragedy in the media.
 

Brickjectivity

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Isolation among peers is a pretty difficult feeling for anyone, particularly a young person, to deal with day after day, every day sadder and worse than the one before it. People mature at different ages. My guess is that they are unable to connect with their school friends, and they are forced to hang around with people that don't want to be around them. Probably they can't take a joke, don't grasp social graces well and want to connect but just can't. Probably they have experienced some bullying which feeds into their backward social experience. Dark feelings overwhelm and build, at first hidden but then impossible to hide and are themselves embarrassing and cause for shame.

My suggestion is:
I think that co-ed education complicates it significantly. You could probably end all of these shootings by separating the students into boys and girls schools and requiring more formality, more civil and rule based interaction. There would be some social cost to this, but it would probably get the job done. It might help with school discipline, too and result in more learning.
 

MikeDwight

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Wow OK your last post Brick just sounded like Drive-In-to campus people. Where's the refund line?
 
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Shadow Wolf

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White Americans are twice as likely to take psychiatric drugs as other racial groups
And, did you know, white people are WAY more likely to seek any sort of psychological and/or psychiatric help? So, by default, they're going to be taking more just because they go to doctors who deal with that more often.
Many say those drugs aren't the problem.
Physical and psychotropic medications, they aren't perfect. But what you go on about is on the level of conspiracy theory nonsense. You want to blame the pills for violence, but once again, there is no correlation there. Stop blaming them, because it ain't causing it. If you want to complain about something, tell people about the "Chemical Russian Roulette" that is the basis of all treatments with medications. Of course we know very well what treats infections of various sorts, but even then it's based on statistical outcomes, outcomes may vary, allergic reactions can happen, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, that sort of treatment can be problematic. Perhaps it was lack of foresight or technology limitations, but genetic tests for "drug compatibility" haven't been around very long.
 

We Never Know

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And, did you know, white people are WAY more likely to seek any sort of psychological and/or psychiatric help? So, by default, they're going to be taking more just because they go to doctors who deal with that more often.

Physical and psychotropic medications, they aren't perfect. But what you go on about is on the level of conspiracy theory nonsense. You want to blame the pills for violence, but once again, there is no correlation there. Stop blaming them, because it ain't causing it. If you want to complain about something, tell people about the "Chemical Russian Roulette" that is the basis of all treatments with medications. Of course we know very well what treats infections of various sorts, but even then it's based on statistical outcomes, outcomes may vary, allergic reactions can happen, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, that sort of treatment can be problematic. Perhaps it was lack of foresight or technology limitations, but genetic tests for "drug compatibility" haven't been around very long.

And I think you are one who also said video games don't have an adverse effect. The new thread shows that wrong.
 

We Never Know

No Slack
And, did you know, white people are WAY more likely to seek any sort of psychological and/or psychiatric help? So, by default, they're going to be taking more just because they go to doctors who deal with that more often.

Physical and psychotropic medications, they aren't perfect. But what you go on about is on the level of conspiracy theory nonsense. You want to blame the pills for violence, but once again, there is no correlation there. Stop blaming them, because it ain't causing it. If you want to complain about something, tell people about the "Chemical Russian Roulette" that is the basis of all treatments with medications. Of course we know very well what treats infections of various sorts, but even then it's based on statistical outcomes, outcomes may vary, allergic reactions can happen, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, that sort of treatment can be problematic. Perhaps it was lack of foresight or technology limitations, but genetic tests for "drug compatibility" haven't been around very long.

We were also told fluoride in water would have no adverse effects. Seems studies now link it with lower IQ with mothers who drank it while pregnant.
There's a new thread about that also.

On the flip side, if it was to become public knowledge about pchyciatric drugs link to anything, just imagine the $$billions it would cost in law suits alone.
 

Shadow Wolf

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On the flip side, if it was to become public knowledge about pchyciatric drugs link to anything, just imagine the $$billions it would cost in law suits alone.
Due to Republican legislation that protects corporations, it would depend on the state as in some states related companies/corporations would be immune to such law suits. And many of those drugs have studied for many decades now.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber
And I think you are one who also said video games don't have an adverse effect. The new thread shows that wrong.
And I can throw out tons of books and articles saying it's wrong. Basic observation shows it's wrong. America has those games and movies and violence. Japan, Canada, and Sweden, they have violent media but not the social violence. How these things are tested in a lab, with hot sauce, those results just are not translating into world real violence.
 

We Never Know

No Slack
Due to Republican legislation that protects corporations, it would depend on the state as in some states related companies/corporations would be immune to such law suits. And many of those drugs have studied for many decades now.

Turn on a TV. The majority of commercials are lawyers suing for side effects of drugs, medical implants, etc.
 

We Never Know

No Slack
And I can throw out tons of books and articles saying it's wrong. Basic observation shows it's wrong. America has those games and movies and violence. Japan, Canada, and Sweden, they have violent media but not the social violence. How these things are tested in a lab, with hot sauce, those results just are not translating into world real violence.

Read the study in the thread
 

We Never Know

No Slack
I'm aware. It still depends on the state though. I don't remember the list of which ones, but it does happen.

Now just imagine if every mass shooting, the shooter had been/was on pchyciatric drugs. If that was ever brought public and ties as a cause/probable cause, imagine the law suits that would bring..

Every victims family x $50,000,000
Any gun maker or seller that has been sued would also sue back
Schools would sue
Doctors would be sued
Doctors would sue the company's
The list goes on
 
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