If you react to violence with violence, we're going to become barbarians. I hate to see society go that way. I think learning to protect yourself is important. But I hope I never see a day when society comes to the point where women lose the soft, feminine nurturing side of them. I hope we can find a balance where men become a little more feminine and women become a little more dominant.
Mass murderers are women, too.
Women beat on their kids just like men do. The numbers are not nearly as great, but there are women out there who are just as violent. Some women are put in a position where they feel they don't have any other choice except to use violence, and they will. Many women are taking self-defense classes and learning to shoot firearms as a way to grow beyond feeling so overwhelmingly victimized in a society and at a time in history when there is so much threat. Paxton Quigley, who runs a personal protection course, has pointed out that women fear guns, and that it's a cultural thing to do so, but that when a woman learns to shoot a gun and to control such a lethal force, it changes her psychologically.