Can you point me in the direction of where black men are in charge of mass shootings in comparison to every other race/gender with this graph? I'm very willing to be proven wrong, I'm not being sarcastic.
I don't understand why the forum is attaching itself to this race nonsense, but I already addressed this in an earlier post using one of the databases a poster who was pointing fingers at white shooters himself elected to share.
It's a study published in 2022 looking at mass shootings from 1999-2021:
US Mass public shootings since Columbine: victims per incident by race and ethnicity of the perpetrator
So this is one of those studies that aims to restrict the dataset only to acts of a more terroristic style of violence even if the killer didn't necessarily have a political goal or radicalized mania like the 9/11 attackers, but only a personal vendetta against his victims, or no relationship at all to them. That's fine, this is traditionally what I think springs to mind for most of us when we hear the term "mass shooter" similar to Columbine. The study uses Columbine as the starting point.
Second, according to the Census, NH Whites made up 61.7% of the country in 2020. NH Blacks make up 12.4%. Of course, the number of WH has declined substantially since 2000 while the number of WH Blacks hasn't changed. NH Whites were 75.1% in 2000. NH Blacks were 12.3%. During the period in question, according to that study's own chosen data set, NH whites committed this particular definition of mass shootings 2.58x the rate of NH Blacks despite that during the date range of those crimes NH whites outnumbered NH Blacks by a factor of 5.0x-6.1x.
Thus, to summarize, even using his own chosen study, from 1999-2021, Blacks were somewhere between 1.94x-2.33x as likely to commit a mass shooting as Whites.
Furthermore, contrary to what
@DoctorTaco is alleging, no, whites weren't responsible for more mass shootings during that period than every other race combined despite that whites significantly outnumbered every other race combined during that period. Whites were responsible for a plurality, but not a majority of the mass shootings.
It's no different with the Mother Jones database that dates back to 1982 with slightly different parameters principally in the reduction to 3 killed victims other than the shooter. It counts 140 total mass shootings with a known race of the perpetrator. Of these, Blacks account for 26, or 18.6% of the total. Blacks ranged from 11.5% to 12.4% during this period, so they once again are over-represented meaning they are more likely to commit a mass shooting.
But both the Mother Jones and Violence Project Database use more restrictive definitions of a mass shooting than even formal government definitions. The Gun Violence Archive, for example, is the one the media loves to trot out when it wants to fan the flames of anti-2nd Amendment sentiment, and raise fear with a high count. This database counts over 2,000 mass shootings just dating to March, 2022. Yet it doesn't record any information about the perpetrator.
However, as the previous databases filter out mass shootings with fewer than 3 deaths other than the shooter, any that don't take place in a public space or publicly accessible property, and any that are also connected to other crime like gangs or drugs, immediately the large gap in the racial rates of perpetration they record and that of all homicides and shootings (as recorded by the FBI's UCR, for example) becomes glaring. Because with these latter stats it's no longer a rate of 1.5x-2.3x. It's a rate usually 3x-6x the norm depending on the violent crime. For example, if you look at all homicides by the UCR during the same date range as the first database I evaluated above, Blacks are responsible 40.4% of homicides, and the vast majority of these are committed with firearms. If you narrow this to just the last five years, it's fractionally shy of half.
I don't understand why this is a point of the discussion. I'm only irritated when leftist posters demonstrate the sheep-like tendency to regurgitate the fearmongering of the MSM that wants to convince them white men are the acute source of this type of crime. They are not. But it
was a white (trans) man who committed this crime, so I don't think it's productive to drag black men over the coals.
The more pressing question, as I see it, is why is there this sudden rise of transgender/nonbinary/LGBTwhatever shooters? When I was young there may have been a lot of negative perceptions surrounding transgenders, but nobody perceived them as violent. That is changing because of incidents like this. It's impossible not to notice that it seems to be coinciding with the ascendence of the
#woke movement.
