Why are mass shooters white?

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70% white, 20% black, 5% Latino

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Notable mass shooters do tend to be White. There is no doubt about that. However lets also accept the reality that the White population makes up at the bare minimum 60% of the population, to roughly 76% of the population, depending on how you report it. On the other side, the Black population is only 13%, yet they commit a far majority of major crimes in the United States.

However, by the definition of 3 or 4 people being shot as a "Mass Shooting" the majority are carried out by the Black population. This isn't anything special, because over 50%+ of yearly murder arrests in the USA are of the Black population, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report. On top of this, its likely much higher in the Black community than that, due to the fact that most murders within the community go unsolved, or unreported. Take for example within Chicago, where nearly 75% of murders are unsolved and are far more likely to involved a Black on Black incident, than anything else.

Each year, a minimum of 50% of Murders are committed by the Black community (often against itself), while the White community usually commits a smaller number than that (around 40%)

But let us assume that the murders in the USA are 50/50 White and Black to make it simple. To give you an example of how extreme this is for the Black community...

Lets say the White community and Black Community both commit 5,000 murders each year, but as I stated before the White community is also 5 times larger (being 60%+ of the population compared to 13% for the Black community)

IF the Black community was equal in size to the White Community, and committed murder at the same rate it currently does... that number of 5,000 would quickly jump to 25,000 murders.

That should give you an idea of which community is far more brutal in regards to things like mass shootings, and murders.

They don't call it thug justice for no reason.

KostasKouvalis · Accepted Answer

We've had a few Asians also.

Americans in general feel they need to shoot people to be respected. White people also have the highest percentage of serial killers. So there's definitely something about White people wanting to kill multiple people at once. Ehen White people carry out these attacks, it's Iike they have some kind of grudge against the world in general and they let their anger and hate built up then just release it all at once. Whereass when Latinos or Blacks kill someone, it's usually personal or in the act of a crime.

samuluaa · Accepted Answer

Why are like over 90 percent of mass shooters male?

exitseven · Answer

There are a lot of white guys who feel either abandoned or ignored by their government. They are the last to qualify for any assistance and the first to have to pay for it all. They are blamed for everything that is wrong with America and if they complain about it they are labelled racist. There is a significant increase in suicide in white males ages 30-50. Sometimes when they commit suicide they want to bring others with them to make a statement.

Anonymous · Answer

Well, whites make up about 76% of the US population. So the 70% sounds about proportionate to their representation in US society. If anything, this is positive for whites because their percent of mass shooters is lower than their actual percentage of their population. Of course it is terrible that ANYONE is committing these crimes, regardless of race.

OddBeMe · Answer

Criminology by race is interesting, but could lead to bias. I have devoted some time to studying mass shooters, infamous or incidents involving large body counts.

And race becomes less an issue as does poverty. A profile could be made of 19-24 year old male, outcast or friendless, perhaps something they feel is wrong with them like autism, though autism has rarely been a factor. And sometimes there’s a trigger, like mother dying, becoming enraged on 4/Chan with other incels….

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

I seriously don't know as to what causes more white people in particularly white men to do random mass shootings but there's a psychological study that says white people are more prone to suffer from psychopathic traits than other ethnicities.

Slingblade1126 · Answer

You need to look up the definition of a "mass shooting", then get back to me with your revised stats.

PatriceONeal · Answer

That matches the racial demographic. 70% of people in america are white so 70%, of the shooters being white is not disproportionate. Nothing to read into here.

BeMuse · Answer

Is that what they tell you at your BLM meetings?

Pterodon · Answer

Because whites are the vast majority where guns are legal. Notice you say mass shooters which are very rare. The most one on one shootings are among rival black gang members

Anonymous · Answer

Because Trump supporter want to keep their rights to own guns

gorydetails · Answer

That is an utter bullshit statistic.

zagor · Answer

Most males in the US are white.

Why are mass shooters white?

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