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At least 12 shot after SUV pulls up and opens fire on a crowd, Chicago police say (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 18 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

What's racist about the assumption? The vast majority of shootings in the us are by white men, and at a group celebrating a black event the number goes up. The main group of people doing mass shootings in the us is white males at 55%, 87 out of 159:

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

And this is just mass shootings, the number goes up for individual/specific shootings.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    mass shooters are 98% male, so thats a wash, its basically all of them, so lets go with your race callout.
    White males do 55% of the shootings, but whites are 72.1% of the US population. So they are underrepresented in the number of shooters-- you'd expect whites to do 72.1 percent of the mass shootings and they dont. So not that white conservatives arent a problem for a lot of reasons, but it seems like your theory doesnt hold up around racism alone. Theres more going on than that.

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