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In reply to the discussion: Another reason for mass shootings [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)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.