And typically mass shootings are done by white males.

The Majority, Sherri Gleason, but not all. Remember Christopher Dorner? He was the L.A. cop who went on a murderous rampage. And don't forget Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, the D.C. snipers.And Colin Ferguson, the black man who massacred people on the Long Island subway train in 1993. There are a number of black mass shooters. The media doesn't like to report on them, though. But of course, we have shootings of innocent bystanders all the time in Chicago, in St. Louis, etc. by black people.

Oh, another point to ponder; Asians actually make up the highest percentage of mass shooters compared to their overall numbers. See this article from Slate. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/what-the-white-mass-shooter-myth-gets-right-and-wrong-about-killers-demographics.html See the data from Mother Jones, too. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/10/what-the-white-mass-shooter-myth-gets-right-and-wrong-about-killers-demographics.html

Whites commit the most mass shootings because whites are the majority of the population.

And even if true, it should be kept in mind that when you tell white males they are dirtbags, with white privilege and toxic masculinity, you are encouraging the more unstable to go out in a blaze of glory. It's why the white male population is the only one declining in America.

The Mother jones survey - which is used as the bellweather for all discussions on mass murder - relied on news reports, too, so it is hardly a complete picture, especially in the ghetto, where a shooting of four or more (the FBI definition of a mass shooting) is a non-story.

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/oct/06/newsweek/are-white-males-responsible-more-mass-shootings-an/ Politifact makes the case:

Duwe pointed us to an essay he penned for Reason magazine in 2014, in which he argued Mother Jones has low-balled its tally of mass shootings as a result of relying solely on news coverage as its source of data. Duwe believes this creates a false impression that mass shootings have been on the rise (a claim that’s beyond the scope of this fact-check).

"The main concern is an underreporting problem that gets worse the farther back in time we go," Duwe told PolitiFact. "This creates problems when it comes to drawing conclusions about trends in the prevalence of mass public shootings."

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I suspect mass shootings are far more equal opportunity than the media will tell us.

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