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Athena,
data does not support your racist prejudice. There are more blacks committing murder than whites, despite there being many more whites than blacks, according to FBI.
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Are we sure that white people are overrepresented as shooters in gun killings?
Or are we just operating based on biases and preconceptions?
The latter.
I think the point brought up in the thread wasn’t just any/every US murder, but mass shootings/murders and they do tend to be white guys. The article links other sources as well..
http://bossip.com/698648/race-matte...urders-than-blacks-or-any-other-racial-group/
According to Wikipedia, 75% of the rampage killings on US record were perpetrated by white males, as were 71% of massacres in schools, and 60% of workplace rampages – a seriously disproportionate number for the number of white males that make up the general population. Clearly, there is more at play here than the advantage of opportunity.