The hypocrisy of MAGA

[Septua]

I will say first of all, that any wrongful death committed by a member of any race against another member of any race is an egregious, inexcusable act.
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I tuned into a right wing-nut radio talk show today (for a very few minutes) and the ongoing conversation was relative to the murdered college girl whose slayer has/had been identified as an 'illegal immigrant' which of course, led to a blame-game, shit-show directed at Biden's 'open border policy...' That was when I turned back to a music station.

But almost immediately, I had the thought, "What ethnicity/race individuals have been committing all the mass shootings for the past years?"

Wait for it...

Between 1982 and December 2023, 80 out of the 149 mass shootings in the United States were carried out by White shooters. By comparison, the perpetrator was African American in 26 mass shootings, and Latino in 12. When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 54 percent, 17 percent, and eight percent respectively.

But the wing-nuts never offer the comparison data.

[Septua]

1. Another link of statistics

https://rockinst.org/gun-violence/mass-shooting-factsheet/

[JT45242]

2. That statistic is off...

We averaged over a mass shooting a day since 2020.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mass-shootings-days-2023-database-shows/story?id=96609874

They had over 600 just last year.

But my guess is they would be majority white perpetrators.

[Septua]

4. I didn't post a link in the OP...duh

It would have been this one:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/

And in that one, there's a "supplementary note" defining mass shooting as one with 3 or more deaths. I don't know how that would affect the total and was more interested in shooter demographics which turned out as expected. In truth, I was expecting a higher percentage.

[niyad]

6. and in other places, mass shooting is defined as four or more killed or

wounded, including the gunman.

[keithbvadu2]

3. There are lies, damned lies and statistics... Mark Twain

[niyad]

5. There have been 79 mass shootings so far this year alone.

[Silent3]

7. 54 + 17 + 8 equals 79... What's the remaining 21%?

After you add up whites, blacks, and latinos, the remaining minorities in America are a very small percent of the population. I don't think there are disproportionately large numbers of, say, Asian or Native American mass shooters out there. Masked mass shooters of unknown demographics? These numbers don't make much sense.

(Weird. An = sign in the subject line will disappear.)