A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carry out an apparent plan to shoot up a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, authorities said Monday.
This is absolutely not correct if your definition of mass shooting is the same one used by the people saying “there have been 500+ mass shootings in the US in 2023”. I would say white males would make up less than half of these at best. I would love to see an empirical study of this if one exists.
If your definition of mass shooting is “dude with a gun shoots lots of strangers at random in a planned extended attack in a space unlikely to have potentially armed victims (school, church, mall, concert, etc)” then you are only partially correct. Off the top of my head I can think of several shootings recently committed (since 2021) by Latino men, Asian American men and one trans man (still a man, but not the typical “while cis male shooter” profile you are implying). Yes, almost all mass shooters are men, which is a societal problem. But I would not generalize it as a white male issue, or even a mostly white male issue.
Either way, the answer must be multi-pronged. We need to enforce more strict gun control laws that include mental health issues. We need a UBI to reduce the general amount of suffering by the people of the US. We need to destigmatize mental health problems and encourage men to talk about their emotions without judging them or telling them to get a job instead. And finally we need to make mental health care affordable and accessible for everyone.
Also we should all punch nazis, because even if they aren’t the majority of mass shooters, they are certainly a part of the problem and deserve to be punched in the face. By everyone.
This is absolutely not correct if your definition of mass shooting is the same one used by the people saying “there have been 500+ mass shootings in the US in 2023”. I would say white males would make up less than half of these at best. I would love to see an empirical study of this if one exists.
If your definition of mass shooting is “dude with a gun shoots lots of strangers at random in a planned extended attack in a space unlikely to have potentially armed victims (school, church, mall, concert, etc)” then you are only partially correct. Off the top of my head I can think of several shootings recently committed (since 2021) by Latino men, Asian American men and one trans man (still a man, but not the typical “while cis male shooter” profile you are implying). Yes, almost all mass shooters are men, which is a societal problem. But I would not generalize it as a white male issue, or even a mostly white male issue.
Either way, the answer must be multi-pronged. We need to enforce more strict gun control laws that include mental health issues. We need a UBI to reduce the general amount of suffering by the people of the US. We need to destigmatize mental health problems and encourage men to talk about their emotions without judging them or telling them to get a job instead. And finally we need to make mental health care affordable and accessible for everyone.
Also we should all punch nazis, because even if they aren’t the majority of mass shooters, they are certainly a part of the problem and deserve to be punched in the face. By everyone.
Goodness, a novel! Feel free to find and list all the stats proving your point. Give me the data to support your points