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StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
12. Oh, please
Sun Aug 4, 2019, 10:04 AM
Aug 2019

You had to go back nearly two years to compile this list and the black and brown shooters you referenced killed a total of 29 people - the number of people murdered by two white supremacists in less than 12 hours yesterday.

This list documents more than 700 people killed in recent years by white shooters - 82 in just the last year.

Other than Virginia Beach shooting, black or brown shooters killed 5 persons or fewer. And they were all carried out with handguns and were not deemed to be driven by racism or racial animus.

Pointing to these killings as equivalent to the rampant mass murders by white supremacists or some kind of proof that the racist murders we've been seeing are the result of "stress" (as opposed to racism and racial hate) is ridiculous. The only thing these particular murders have in common with the white supremacist hate crimes is that they were classified as "mass murders" because they killed multiple people.

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Another reason for mass shootings [View all] Dirty Socialist Aug 2019 OP
Agree re the availability of assault rifles malaise Aug 2019 #1
I remember as a kid in the 70's knowing what an AR-15 was and thinking it would be cool to brewens Aug 2019 #29
I can't process this madness malaise Aug 2019 #38
Yeah countingbluecars Aug 2019 #2
Tou don't know the reason Dirty Socialist Aug 2019 #3
This response sounds strangely familiar StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #5
Don't jump to conclusions Dirty Socialist Aug 2019 #8
Gaslighting doesn't work on me StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #9
Riiiiiiiiiight durablend Aug 2019 #14
If stress is the problem, why aren't black and brown people "snapping" like this? StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #4
Actually, they are, just in a smaller ratio. X_Digger Aug 2019 #11
Oh, please StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #12
I took the top 12 rows in the document. X_Digger Aug 2019 #17
"Whites are slightly overrepresented"? StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #19
Math is math. *shrug* X_Digger Aug 2019 #22
Math is math, but your argument isn't math. It's just a sorry attempt at diversion StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #23
Here are the numbers, since you don't seem inclined to do them yourself, even with the link.. X_Digger Aug 2019 #24
Why don't you break it down by numbers of victims and types of shootings StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #25
Yes, lets narrow the criteria to get the result set you want. X_Digger Aug 2019 #28
This message was self-deleted by its author mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #31
If I may interject ... you two are talking past one another ... mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #32
Thank you StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #39
This message was self-deleted by its author MadDAsHell Aug 2019 #30
This message was self-deleted by its author X_Digger Aug 2019 #33
You seem far more concerned with appropriate classification than with actual loss of life. MadDAsHell Aug 2019 #34
I was simply interjecting some facts. X_Digger Aug 2019 #35
Yeah. That's it. StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #37
Hear, hear! scarletwoman Aug 2019 #18
THIS !!!! uponit7771 Aug 2019 #26
I'm a white guy, I'm stressed out... I don't go on shooting sprees ck4829 Aug 2019 #6
Preach it brother ChubbyStar Aug 2019 #16
Any port in a storm StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #20
+1, "stressed" isn't driving 10 hours to plug 30 - 40 people that's hate uponit7771 Aug 2019 #27
El Paso shooter lived with his parents who were rich Johnny2X2X Aug 2019 #7
His parents are rich (for the time being) and most likely put a lot of the hate Blue_true Aug 2019 #36
Giving stress as an reason to shoot people? Watch it someone could use it on you soon lunasun Aug 2019 #10
+1. I've snapped before, I've thrown an object or yelled at someone ck4829 Aug 2019 #13
These guys are not snapping. They are planning this shit, often elaborately. madinmaryland Aug 2019 #15
Every now and then, someone "snaps" and kills one, two, three, sometimes 5 people StarfishSaver Aug 2019 #21
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