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?”
