„though cisgender straight (usually white) men are the overwhelming majority of mass shooters in the US“
Counting or not counting gang violence?
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Mass shooters, not counting gang violence, are defined as public shootings with 4+ deaths.
The Violence Project found that of 172 mass public shooters from 1966-2019, 97.7% were male and 52.3% were white https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/public-mass-shootings-database-amasses-details-half-century-us-mass-shootings
NPR reports that 98% of mass shooters are male, with white men disproportionately responsible for mass shootings more than any other group. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/27/981803154/why-nearly-all-mass-shooters-are-men
According to Wikipedia citing multiple studies, "Public mass shootings of persons unrelated to the shooter, and for a reason not connected with a previous crime (the rarest but most publicized) are committed by men whose racial distribution closely matches that of the nation as a whole." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
But when you look at who's actually pulling the trigger in these planned public attacks... school shootings, workplace shootings, church shootings—it's overwhelmingly cisgender men, mostly white.
Gang violence is a different category with different demographics and different solutions... those are typically conflicts between people who know each other.
I'm talking about the people who plan to kill random strangers in public places. Look at who actually attempts assassinations. Trump's trying to ban 2% of the population, but the patterns show who's really doing it.
Thank you for sharing the facts!
“Mass shootings” in America is firing upon an innocent group of kids/people who had no idea and/or no connection to shooter.
Gang violence is something accepted among the gangs as a part of the life.
Huge difference and she is correct…which doesn’t mean she is racist.
If she called out the blacks lots of people would have a very different opinion.
Either way, calling out a particular demographic whilst simultaneously calling for unity and chastising someone else for stoking division by calling out a particular demographic makes her a hypocrite.
And in any case, she's played right into what she claims to be Trump's plan - putting people against each other.
Good on her if that was her intention I guess...
I’m sorry you are confused. She was pointing out the fact that “mass shootings”, especially in American are just about all white males whose ideology is most similar to alt right groups.
You are the one injecting racism and not the subject by trying to bring in other crimes into “mass shooting” fold. You are doing this to distract from the facts and the focus the reader to something irrelevant to the issue…probably out of some form of insecurity.
She can discuss facts of crimes and not be divisive just by stating the findings. Now, the findings may be uncomfortable to you or others but your feelings towards the facts do not change them at all.