Get rid of the guns! Our gun culture is totally insane! It is as stupid as religion. I don't want to hear that 2nd amendment crap. Stupid is stupid. The Constitution has been amended twenty something times becuase it is NOT perfect.

OK 3 main ingredients are needed: guns, users and schools. Which one would be the easiest to eliminate?
There is something fundamentally wrong with the American culture.
Switzerland compels all able young men to do military service after which they take their guns home. Switzerkland has schools too, but not school shootings.

Take away their access to guns.

Many thoughts.on this and for some years.

Most of my thoughts are politically incorrect and therefore dismissed out-of-hand.

Of the 1% ascribed to females, one can also add that they are very different and far less destructive. Females know who they are after and why. When the target/s been hit, they're done; no random murder without reason, as with males.

The security budgets in schools could be slashed by almost 50% by making one change that would have some ancillary benefits in both reduced deadly violence and better learning. Have separate schools for males and females beginning at 5th. Grade until graduation from twelfth grade.

Females learn better and participate more without presence of males in classrooms and concentrate more on academics in schools wherein personal appearance isn't competitive. Males act-out aggressively amongst themselves naturally and get into disputes and fights. When females are present, many of the fights are motivated by disputes for attention and efforts to show-off for them. Jealousies and competition arise and the humiliation factor multiplies. Boys compete, fight, win and lose routinely without the deep levels of humiliation among only other boys; therefore less fixated, vengeful emotions that, if repeated can fester and be acted out in extreme violence.

Girls' schools would only need entry security; cutting budgets by about half.

This suggested remedy would be only a band-aid, but society as we know it isn't yet prepared for prevention. Ways by which these violent young men are manufactured aren't understood and if they were, solutions would be even more politically and religiously unacceptable than the suggestion above. We are at least decades, if not centuries, away from that level of awareness and willingness to act on the basis of the knowledge.

A total ban on firearms throughout the United states.

I think it must be noted that the spike in school shootings, which has occurred over the last 30 years, and educational reform, which changed the educational approach to help girls score better on college admissions exams, etc., largely coincide. I'm not saying it is causal, but there is a correlation. This may be one part of the problem. Couple this with men rarely gaining custody in a divorce, and a dearth of male teachers in the elementary grades, and young boys may have few male role models teaching them how to be men. Their role models may become TV, video games, music videos, etc.

It is a societal problem that causes this, we want to be famous for something I guess. Will banning guns, or some types of guns, stop it? Obviously no. The real question is this, will it stop some of them? The answer, also obvious, is yes. So my question to the gun nuts is this: "What's the magic number?". I mean, how many have to be saved before we do SOMETHING. I will tell you now that I would oversee the melting of every gun in America if it would save my grandson from such a fate, and that's how we should look at it.

It seems to be an access issue. I believe focusing on male issue is not productive in this instance. If we look at gun related death rates in other countries you can see what appears to be clearer correlation between access to guns and deaths. Now the larger issue of maleness and acts of aggression is also worthy of study in the larger context of socialization and cultural norms.

Limit guns and treat mental health disorders

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I’m a bit puzzled. Are you saying it isn’t an issue? It isn’t an issue because it’s men instead of women doing this?

If you look at crime rates between men & women, you’’ll see the same lopsided results. So I think it’s a much wider phenomenon than school shootings.

I don’t see why, at minimum,there’s not acknowledge and skills test, just like for a driver’s license.

Give them blow up dolls?

I think it’s notable that the is a uniquely white, male and American phenomenon. It seems that many of these young men feel that 1) they are entitled to attention/liking/approval from classmates and that 2)they believe that violence is an acceptable response when they are denied what they want.

Castration instead of circumcision?

Cut off their testosterone.

It's because so small a percentage of men are actually criminals to begin with. Being male therefore doesn't necessarily mean that one is going to commit a crime, so it's tough to expedite the reasoning that because any given man wishes to buy a gun, he is going to commit a crime with it. Gun store owners simply are not going to buy the fallacious argument "Since men commit 99% of school shootings, then they should be stopped from buying guns." because it's not actually a rational assertion. It is also not constructive, because the gun sale economy is so strong.

I am very firmly sure that our violence problem in our country is an expression of the mental health & abuse problem. Americans can be very externalized and have a lifestyle that is not supportive to mental health beyond taking medications that indirectly cause other mental health problems.

I'm not sure what you're asking.

Unless if the person legally purchaced the firearm, it probably came from the parents house. Parents, get a damn gun safe! I've heard a lot of times that a firearm was taken without their parents permission. We should hold THEM resposible as well! EDIT: and probably 99% of the 99% were white and religous.

How many males, exactly, would the entire world need to maintain (hopefully shrink!!!) the population? Just thinking out loud......

Might be use-full to find out how many are on mind altering drugs. But you won't find out from the main stream media. Just saying.

Most of these guys feel like some one owes them something. Lately the youngest ones are mad because a girl did not show them affection. We need to change the way we raise kids.

I'm beginning to suspect there is no answer. Any solution anyone comes up with is going to be promptly knocked down.

Testosterone, must play a big part since it is mostly young males. Puberty, plays havoc with male hormones, so it seems to me that males need special attention with understanding their emotions, especially during puberty! Parents, need to be aware of these changes and how they impact young men’s behavior. That would be a start!

Misogyny and homophobia needs to die. It's used to ridicule men and boys, provoking an ultra macho violent response.

Any woman who uses homophobia or misogyny as a weapon against men is complicit and part of the cycle that creates toxic masculinity.

Guns need banning too.