As they see their perceived white alpha male rights slipping away, we can expect more of this behavior by the aggrieved low educated
"Nearly all of the mass shootings in this country in recent years — not just Newtown, Aurora, Fort Hood, Tucson and Columbine — have been committed by white men and boys. Yet when the National Rifle Association (NRA), led by white men, held a news conference after the Newtown massacre to advise Americans on how to reduce gun violence, its leaders’ opinions were widely discussed.
Unlike other groups, white men are not used to being singled out. So we expect that many of them will protest it is unfair if we talk about them. But our nation must correctly define their contribution to our problem of gun violence if it is to be solved.
When white men try to divert attention from gun control by talking about mental health issues, many people buy into the idea that the United States has a national mental health problem, or flawed systems with which to address those problems, and they think that is what produces mass shootings.
But women and girls with mental health issues are not picking up semiautomatic weapons and shooting schoolchildren. Immigrants with mental health issues are not committing mass shootings in malls and movie theaters. Latinos with mental health issues are not continually killing groups of strangers."
White men have much to discuss about mass shootings
Comparing FBI homocide stats by ethnicity, whites murder other whites and blacks murder other blacks at about the same rates,
Expanded Homicide Data Table 6
While mass shooters may disproportianately be white, overall the numbers are about the same. If you added up all the victims, it's roughly identical. Whites get more victims in single incidents, but blacks get just about as many though in seperate incidents.
I don't see any evidence either's more homocidal than the other.
Once AGAIN -- the thread isn't about "homicides" --- it's about mass shootings.
They're two different things, perpetrated by two different kinds of people for two different reasons. Conflating the two serves no purpose.
Mass shootings ARE homicides. They would be included under HOMICIDES on any government website as far as statistical data is concerned.
They're only "homicides" in that somebody was killed. That doesn't address what makes it happen in the first place, which as I read it seems to be the point of this thread. If every killing were lumped under the term "homicide" so it could be dismissed, then a soldier who kills another soldier on a battlefield is also guilty of "homicide".
Motivations matter. They matter because they make things happen, and they make things not happen. To ignore the root causes is to ignore the entire problem. Lumping them all into "homicides" and then conveniently concluding "nothing to see here, move along", is the same as running away from it and burying one's head in the proverbial sand.
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