Texas Mass Shooting part 30

[GMDino]

(09-05-2019, 11:17 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I appreciate you acknowledging the historic racism inherent in gun control laws.  Seeing as how I am for any law abiding citizen owning the firearm of their choice this does not apply to me.  It does apply to today's gun control crowd who are now pushing the laughably absurd dangerous white man/racist trope.  The irony of the left's own definition of what constitutes a "mass shooting" actually showing that young black men are the primary perpetrators of such acts, as defined, by far has to be pointed out.

Interesting.

Not sure who is this "left" that has their own special definition, so I looked it up.

I found that the FBI considers a mass shooting:

Quote:There is no widely accepted definition of the term "mass shooting" but the FBI defines a "mass murder" as "four or more murdered during an event with no "cooling-off period" between the murders."

Since wikipedia can be wonky when it comes to updates I did a little further research and found the government has a firm definition signed into law in 2013:

Quote:First, the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012, signed into law by the president in January 2013, permits the U.S. attorney general—at the request of appropriate state or local law enforcement personnel—to provide federal assistance during active shooter incidents and mass killings (defined by the law as three or more people) in public places. The attorney general delegated this responsibility to the FBI.

So how many "mass shootings" fall into different race categories?

One site says:

Quote:Of 114 mass shootings - using the Congress definition - between 1982 and May 2019, 110 were carried out by men.


The final four are made up of three women, and one case of one man and a woman working together in the San Bernardino attack in December 2015.


According to Statista analysis, in the same time-frame 64 of the perpetrators were white, while 19 were black, 10 Latino and eight Asian.

About 60% of America is white-only, while current stats show white people carry out about 58% of shootings. But as a proportion of all races and shootings, white people far outstrip others.

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

So, using the government's definition (not the "left's"...whatever that is) almost 60% of mass shootings are committed by whites.  96% or so by men.

That seems like "primary" to me.  

But I'm just going by the numbers with no hidden motives, so what do I know.