Is it rare for a woman to commit a mass shooting?

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Assailants in mass shootings across the United States — like the one that occurred Monday in Nashville — are extremely rare, according to the Violence Project, which maintains a national database of mass shootings dating back to 1966.

In a dataset of 172 mass shootings, defined as involving four or more victims and collected before Monday’s case, only four assailants were women or girls. In two cases, women acted alongside a man.

The scarcity of female assailants in mass shootings reflects a larger trend: Between 80 and 90 percent of all homicide perpetrators in any given year are male, according to the Violence Project.

“The women’s issue is incredibly rare,” said Robert Louden, a retired New York City police officer and professor emeritus of criminal justice at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ.

Women offenders in homicide cases are often associated with domestic violence, Prof Louden said.

“Women kill someone who has been an abuser,” he said, adding, “Women don’t kill, shoot or hold as many hostages as men. It’s rare and space. “

The mass shooter archetype is young and masculine.

Six of the nine deadliest mass shootings in the United States since 2018 were committed by people 21 or younger, marking a change for mass shootings, which before 2000 were most often triggered by men in twenties, thirties and forties.

An FBI study of 160 “active shooter” episodes between 2000 and 2013 found that only six, or 3.8 percent, involved female attackers.

In recent years, there have been several high-profile outliers to the trend of mass shootings committed by young gunmen.

In May 2021, a sixth-grade girl brought a gun to her middle school in Idaho and injured two students and a guard before being disarmed by a teacher. The shooter, who has not been identified because she was a minor, was sentenced to a juvenile correction center.

In April 2018, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, who police say was in his late 30s, entered YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California, on the northern edge of Silicon Valley, killing three people before suicide. Police said Ms Aghdam’s anger at what she believed to be unfair treatment by YouTube put her on an 800 mile drive from her home near San Diego to YouTube’s offices.

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