Mass shootings article

Young Male Syndrome

                The main point of this article is to explain to everyone why young men are more likely to perform acts of violence and aggression, or more likely and do perform more mass shootings than women and older men. Studies have shown that young men are far more likely to do something violent than women or older men because they have much higher levels of testosterone and testosterone is linked to aggression and violent behavior. Young men have always thought that they have to repeatedly prove their “manliness or manhood.” When this is brought up to young men they know exactly what is being talked about but women have no feelings of proving womanhood or womanliness.

                There was an experiment done to prove that guns can be a bad thing and cause violent or aggressive behavior. The first test subject they put a young man in a room and gave him a gun and told him to take it apart and to make a list of how to put it back together. They also gave another man in a different room the game mousetrap and told him to take it apart and make a list on how to put it back together. Then they gave both of them hot sauce and told them to put some in the water that somebody was going to drink. The man that used the gun for his experiment had put way more hot sauce in the water than the man who used the game. Also, the guy who had the gun had way higher levels of testosterone than the man with the game.

                I think that young men are far more likely to do a mass shooting because of this article. Another piece of evidence that I agree with was when a young man bought a pistol for the first time he felt like he had power and had thoughts of “who is the alpha male know?”