Can you imagine how society would react is 98% of mass shooters were women?

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Laws would have immediately been changed. Everyone would question how we're raising girls.  It would be on the news all. the. time.

BCA6010 · Accepted Answer

If  all  you did was flip the genders of the shooters, it would actually change very little, but the implications would be much more disturbing. The US's mass shooting numbers are heavily propped up by gang hits, most of which are never reported publicly except *maybe* on the local news due to the fact it's politically inconvenient to the desired narrative, but they'll be included whenever that statistic needs to be thrown around. So your scenario would implicate massive gang participation by female hitmen, which in the context of any western nation or culture, would indicate an even more depraved society than we actually have. The laws and the people trying to push or block new laws wouldn't be any different; only the rhetoric would change. Changing laws would also not have any beneficial impact anyway, because would-be criminals do not care about the law. "How we are raising children" should be getting questioned now, across the board, period. Instead, we will occasionally hear about pissed off parents railing against schools indoctrinating kids into a certain way of thinking, or a psychiatrist pointing out how damaging social media exposure at young ages is, or about some sick cases of parental child abuse... And all it ever amounts to is 10 seconds of outrage before moving on to the next story. So again, nothing would really change here, either. Because of what I outlined in the first paragraph, and because of how the media treats actual female mass shooters and serial killers, I strongly disagree - we would probably hear that the events happened, but the identity and backgrounds of the shooters would be heavily suppressed and probably outright twisted to fit another agenda.

mstbooblover · Accepted Answer

Women are far from innocent, sure enough, but those mass shooters are as far as I know nearly always male. Imagining the shooters would have been women is a very disturbing idea, probably because genders do actually exist with their distinctive characteristics and logic. I have no idea of how society would react, but that kind of society would in any case already have been very different basically, with women dominating and men only sissies used to procreate.

The phenomenon of mass shooters as we know is most likely linked to a general male domination issue. Sure that as well men as women dominate, but not at all in the same way.

AaronH03 · Accepted Answer

in my opinion if this were the case gun control laws would be across all states, there would be an active and strong push to, like you said, basically control women or figure out what the problem is. But I think, because it is so strongly men doing it AND generally mostly men who purchase and own guns that, as we’ve all seen, politically and follow through with laws etc just doesn’t happen. It all ends on “thoughts and prayers”

Agape93 · Accepted Answer

Oh absolutely. Especially if it was a sudden power dynamic shift.

NamerOfStars · Answer

Are... are you trying to say that women are held MORE accountable for their actions than men are? What planet are you living on? When women make up 50%- hell, 20%- of the prison convict population, come talk to me.

Until then, think how society would react if 98% of child molesters were men, and their victims got congratulated while their abusers never saw the inside of a prison cell and sometimes didn't even lose their jobs.

ManOnFire · Answer

You don't even need 98%. There has already been an increase in female shooters in recent years, and it still hasn't pushed people to change the gun laws any differently. No one asks how we're raising our girls because of it, people simply try to "understand" what drove her to do it, because their must've been some kind of "emotional distress" or trauma that pushed her.

MementoMori777 · Answer

Yea they would have already opened a second opportunity program for them where they are psychologically trained to re-enter society and I believe the shootings will be forgotten a lot quicker, that LGBTQ woman shooting up the Christian school, only seen it cycle once In the media and never heard anyone talk about it again 😂

RealMarek · Answer

Imagine how society would react if it found a relation between the promulgation of nihilistic philosophy and a shallow consumerist way of life with seemingly random nihilistic acts of violence. It won’t happen though, because these things serve to enrich the elites.

Anonymous · Answer

Put nicely, this is a really silly take. Laws would not be different if it was women, and men are not being responded to lightly just because they're men. Additionally, this is not a "man" thing, considering 99.99% of men are not enacting mass shootings, let alone any sort of massacres. This is an epidemic of people who want to hurt people and it is in no way reflective of the average man.

Anonymous · Answer

That would be pure terror. Because the worry about shooters is you never knew about it till they went on a shooting spree. The assumption is if people were paying attention you could diffuse the situation. With women shooters there would be no rhyme or reason, certainly no LOGICAL explanation. And it would happen without warning and for certain there would be no diffusing it.

exitseven · Answer

Maybe if suddenly women all over the world started going on shooting sprees. There might be some questions about it but women are not somehow singled out as a group more susceptible to scrutiny.

Juxtapose · Answer

We've already figured out why that happens with men and it's because of testosterone. If women did that then it would likely be because estrogen would make them more aggressive in that alternate world.

CheeseMonster · Answer

I don't think it's a stretch at all to say if this were the case, women would be banned from owning firearms. Nationwide.

loveslongnails · Answer

Of course. Only men would be allowed to own guns. LOL Now, imagine if MEN got pregnant and not women? Abortion would be legal most everywhere, probably up to the first tri-mester!! Oh yeah, that would happen.

Crankor · Answer

Pretty sure politicians would act the same. I never hear the news refer to, oh maybe our school system sucks or maybe we shouldn't raise children to be butt hurt pu$$ies...

motownplayer2000 · Answer

Those questions are still being asked. Yeah, mass shooting has and will alway be a problem in America because don’t no body want to touch the trigger that is guns to certain individuals.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Can you imagine how society would react if everyone sharing the same gender were punished for the actions of less than 1/1,000,000th?

grega239 · Answer

Tgey would get mental help instead of prison, pity parties and go fund me campaings.  Laws probably would change to punish them less because they are victims in some way

Dargil · Answer

Society would blame: *Men *Republicans, and *Trump.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

There would be an @shootingpositivity movement?

JohnK123 · Answer

If* they might get to stay in high school and continue learning how to spell

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

Are you seriously saying women are dealt a harsher hand in legal issues? Lol!!! Yeah, because people take a man being raped by a woman so seriously, right?

Christoff92 · Answer

That would be encouraged by the feminine society. But the feminine society might suffer the consequences for that. Might.

Sasahara · Answer

At best, they would react the same way they do to men. At worst, more people would excuse these women.

Can you imagine how society would react is 98% of mass shooters were women?

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