The suspect who opened fire at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin is a 15-year-old girl, but 97.7% of perpetrators of mass shootings from 1966 to 2019 were male:
In 2006, a former U.S. Postal Service employee fatally shot six people at a postal facility in Goleta, Calif., before taking her own life. Authorities said writings later found at the home of the woman, who had struggled with mental illness, indicated she believed she was threatened by a conspiracy involving postal employees.
In 2018, a woman with an apparent grudge against YouTube opened fire at the company’s San Bruno, Calif., headquarters, wounding several people before fatally shooting herself.
That same year, a temporary employee fatally shot three people — and then themself — at a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Md. While authorities and some friends initially identified the perpetrator as female, some media outlets later reported they had started identifying as transgender in the years before the shooting.
Women were also part of pairs that carried out shootings, like the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., and the 2019 shooting at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, N.J.
An infamous school shooting perpetrated by a woman happened in January 1979, when 16-year-old Brenda Spencer fired out of the window of her San Diego home at children arriving at the elementary school across the street.
Nine children and two adults — the principal and janitor — were killed in the attack.
Steve Wiegand, a reporter with the San Diego Evening Tribune, began randomly calling homes near Grover Cleveland Elementary School to talk to potential eyewitnesses. He connected first with Spencer, and after talking for a while, got the sense the shots had come from her house. Wiegand asked why she did it.
“She said ‘Because I just don’t like Mondays. Do you like Mondays? You know, it just livens up the day,’ ” he recalled.
On the other side of the country, Bob Geldof, the lead singer of the Irish new wave band Boomtown Rats, was being interviewed at a radio station in Atlanta when he saw a news story about the incident come across the wires.
Struck by Spencer’s phrasing, he went back to his hotel room and penned “I Don’t Like Mondays.” The song, released in July 1979, spent four weeks at the top of the singles chart in the United Kingdom.
For many years, the darling of 8ch was Nasim Aghdam. Her major accomplishment was being not entirely ugly while perpetrating a shooting. However, she was a marginalized, under-appreciated, alienated modern person, so 8kun saw her (and probably still sees her) as an underdog.
Junkies. D’oh.
That said, do the women flying off the handle shoot/stab the same target repeatedly more or less often?
Gaikokumaniakku says:
So, was it 8ch or 8kun? And which board? I somehow didn’t notice it.
The sensitive young women among us must know that target selection is so important. Choose well and you can be a folk hero; choose poorly, however, and you’re just another unstable schmuckette. Those who desire to an hero have a moral prerogative to do so with purpose, and if you’re going to be thinking at all, you might as well think big.
Nasim was the darling of 8ch back before 8ch changed its name to 8kun.