Slate debunks the notion that mass shooters are predominantly white. The legacy media would ask you to believe they are, as part of their “whites are bad” narrative.
Judging by those newer numbers, and the most current census estimate that 76.9 percent of Americans are white, the whites-are-overrepresented-among-mass-shooters meme appears even less accurate. Perpetrators that Mother Jones classifies as Asian make up 7.4 percent of the data set, versus an estimated 5.7 percent of the population, while those MoJo identifies as black represent 17.0 percent of the mass shooters in the database versus an estimated 13.3 percent of the population. According to this data set, then, Asians and black Americans are overrepresented among mass shooters by about the same proportion (a bit more than one-fourth) that whites are underrepresented.
Whites aren’t more likely to be mass shooters, but white shooters do get more media attention. Hat tip to Instapundit for the link.
