The Excel file with detailed information on the 88 mass public shootings from 1998 through May 15, 2022, is available here. With all the discussion about having another assault weapon ban, only 14% of mass public shootings are done solely with any type of rifle. Twenty-nine percent involve only a rifle or a rifle in combination with a handgun and/or a shotgun. Among the other findings, about 9 in 10 of the attacks are in gun-free zones (though over the longer period from 1950, 94% of the attacks are in gun-free zones), half of the shooters are over age 30 and over 80 percent are at least 21 years of age. 97% are male and 55% are white. Still, for many, it might be surprising that such a large percentage of these attackers are minorities and that most are much older than K-12 or college-age shooters. Earlier work that we had done showed that the vast majority of these killers have no religious or political views. Forty-eight percent of the mass public shooters were seeing mental health care professionals prior to their attacks. (RELATED: As Gun Sales Soared, the Number of Violent Crimes Committed With Guns Plummeted)
While the majority of mass public shooters are white, they are much less than their share of the U.S. population. Including people of Middle Eastern descent, about 76 percent of Americans were white over this period, but 63% of the mass public shooters were white (just 55% are white if you exclude people of Middle Eastern descent). About 3.7 million are Arab Americans and 6.5 million are Jewish Americans, so while 8% of shooters are of Middle Eastern Arab descent, they make up just over 1% of the US population. (RELATED: Thoughts on The New England Journal of Medicine Letter About Gun Deaths)
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This article originally appeared in Crime Prevention Research Center. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News. Republished with permission.
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. founded the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). An economist and a world-recognized expert on guns and crime, Lott served the Trump administration as the Senior Advisor for Research and Statistics at the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.
One important fact not shown was the race of the killer ! That is just as important as the gender of the killer.
One thing you will never see is whether a crime was committed by a Democrat and or someone who was raised by a democrat or a republican the fact is most major crimes are committed by Democrats commonly known republican states also have areas like Chicago are primarily democratic most murders in Chicago happen in neighborhoods of color which are democratic neighborhoods
There is a pie chart showing the racial breakdown of mass shooters. Whites and hispanics are underrepresented when compared to the proportion of the population that is white and/or hispanic, while the other races are overrepresented.
Whites of middle eastern descent, however, are very overrepresented.
Better look more carefully at the spreadsheet provided in the article. It DOES list the race of the perpetrators.
Actually, there is a pie chart in the article that depicts race of the shooter.
Inconvenient fact: In the 20th century around 100 million unarmed people were killed by their own governments.
Inconvenient fact: If we had a Uvalde mass murder every day for 100 years the total loss of life would be less than 1% of the number of unarmed people killed by their own governments in the 20th century.
Inconvenient fact: We would have to have a mass murder of 114 people every hour for 100 years to equal the number of unarmed people killed by their own governments in the 20th century.
Criminals do not obey gun laws.
Democrat tyrants want to disarm us so they can do things to us that they know they should be shot for.
Bury your tyrants, not your guns.
The people of the USA have more guns than all of the militaries in the world COMBINED.
Your facts and data mean nothing to a leftist bent on disarming Americans.
After all, they only want to take away your “assault weapons”. That’s today. Tomorrow it will be all long guns. Then semi-auto everything. Then all the rest.
They are lying leftists. It’s how they roll.
In 1917 the Wall Street overthrew the czar of Russia kidnapped him and his family then murdered them and then went on to murder over 66 million mainly white Christians after taking all of their guns. At the time Russia was the most well armed country in the world.
Texe Marrs 66 million
https://www.texemarrs.com/062004/soviet_gulag.htm
I’m sure Wall Street left New York City to go to war in Russia in 1917. That comment was ridiculous.
Your comment would reach people much better if you had placed “bolsheviks” where you put in that ridiculous underground reference to “Wall Street”
Politicians have access to this data and more, so it’s difficult to come to any conclusion _other_ than, their “solutions” to these crimes are political kabuki theater, not meant for serious consideration. I.e., their thrust is to _disarm Americans_ rather than alleviate crimes. Shameful bassets.
Let’s go, Brandon! Remember in November.
97% of these individuals have taken psychotropic drugs, most all of their lives. This explains everything to me.
MKultra, a CIA project, is reponsible for much of the shootings, especially where schools are involved. People with mental illness are “programmed” through mind-altering drugs (LSD and the like) and intentionally tortured to produce acute PTSD and angry aggression. In their heigtened state of distress these people are easily directed to commit these crimes, usually at a time when such mellays will distract the public from nefarious activities taking place at the same time as the shootings.
One way or another we must purge all left wing liberals from our government or they will succeed in destroying our constitutional republic, as well as take our guns so that they and their forces will be the only ones with weapons. That’s not as far fetched as it may sound.
55% White my ASS !
Add TX Tower shooter, 1966 to 1998