ANALYSIS
Are mass shooters mostly 'White men?' Here's what the stats say
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Last updated 4/1/2021 at 1:46pm
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Mourners walk the temporary fence line outside the parking lot of a King Soopers grocery store, the site of a mass shooting in which 10 people died, Friday, March 26, in Boulder, Colorado.
Many leftists were quick to assume the perpetrator of the mass shooting Monday, March 22, in Boulder, Colorado, was a White man.
Police revealed Tuesday, March 23, that the alleged shooter was 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, leading some users to quickly issue corrections or delete their posts. Jumping to the conclusion that a mass shooter is a White male has become extremely common in the past few years, but the phenomenon raises an important question. Are most mass shooters White men?
While White perpetrators make up a majority of mass shooters in the last 40 years, the racial makeup o...
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