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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Schoolgirl killers: The nine females who have carried out school shootings since Columbine
2024-12-19
[DailyMail, where America gets its news] School shootings have become a near-daily occurrence in the United States, but the Wisconsin rampage that left three dead on Monday was a rarity.

The Abundant Life Christian School massacre is the 10th school shooting to be carried out by a female shooter since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 where 13 were murdered. The massacre is often seen as a watershed moment in the age of American school shootings.

Natalie Rupnow, 15, armed herself with a pistol and opened fire at the small Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin on Monday, killing a teacher and another student. Six others were injured in the attack.

Rupnow, who turned the gun on herself after the massacre, is the youngest female mass school shooter in US history.

Only about 3 per cent of all US mass shootings - defined by the Gun Violence Archive as a single attack in which at least four victims shot, either injured or killed - are perpetrated by females.

EXPERTS WARN
But experts warn that with the rise of gun violence and the increase in the sheer number of school shootings since Columbine that it is almost inevitable that more school massacres will be carried out by female students.
Duh. Three percent of a larger number will also be a larger number. Math always works.
Males often have easier access to firearms, and many shooters model themselves after previous attackers, most of whom were men, said Jonathan Metzl, a sociology and psychiatry professor at Vanderbilt University and gun violence expert.

Some sociologists also view mass shootings as 'reflective of a pathology of toxic masculinity,' Metzl said, adding that men are more likely to commit violent crimes in general, not just school shootings.
I suspect that men are more likely to commit physical violence, whereas women are more likely to commit psychological abuse. That would be a nice little research project for you, Professor, instead of just making blanket statements that reveal your toxic biases.
But other factors common to school shootings - bullying, isolation, social media - are not specific to boys, experts claim.
See?
Data also shows an increase in aggression and violence among adolescent girls in recent years, according to Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor of nursing at Villanova University who has studied school shootings.

Craig Jackson, a professor of Occupational Health Psychology at Birmingham City University in the UK, warned there could be more female schools shooters as levels of narcissism in teenagers continues to rise.

'Much research has looked at the high levels of narcissism required in order to undertake mass shootings, i.e. believing the death of innocent victims is justified,' Jackson told DailyMail.com on Tuesday. 'Unsurprisingly younger males tend to have higher levels of narcissism than their female peers who may be socialized and conditioned into more non-narcissistic behaviors.

'Worryingly, some research shows levels of narcissism in teenagers are increasing year on year as an affect of the me-based society and social media, and this can only suggest mass shootings will continue to increase.'

Jackson has predicted that Rupnow's sex will likely be examined by investigators as a potential source of motive in Monday's attack.

'On social media, especially amongst the widespread online misogynistic movement, the sex of the shooter will no doubt be poured over as a potential source for Rupnow's motive, potentially even seeing her as an 'avenging female',' Jackson said.

'This is a very short-sighted view. Rupnow is more likely to have killed for the same reasons as male shooters do: anger, isolation, or attention. It may have even be a 'solution' to possible recent stressors in her life.'

Here are the female students who have carried out school school shootings over the last 25 years...
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  Idaho Board of Education bans DEI offices and initiatives in all public universities
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-12-19 07:59  

#2  Correlation and causation are not necessarily related but......if mom isn't healthy?
Throw in social media, teenage angst, and the indoctrination of toxic feminism in the school systems, stir and you may get these results.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-12-19 07:23  

#1  The hand that should be looking forward to "rocking the cradle." What has changed ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-12-19 05:09  

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