On 6/2/2022 9:34 PM, Frank Howell wrote:
Tulsa Gunman Ranted to His Surgeon Then Bought a Rifle 3 Hours Before Hospital Massacre.
Police said Louis fatally shot two orthopedists, a medical receptionist,
a bystander, and then himself at a medical office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Wednesday afternoon, using a semi-automatic rifle he bought just three
hours earlier from a local gun store.
https://tinyurl.com/24kduw8j
The first? Since when? Black mass shooters are actually a bit over represented.
"Between 1982 and June 2022, 68 out of the 129 mass shootings in the
United States were carried out by white shooters. By comparison, the perpetrator was African American in 21 mass shootings, and Latino in 11.
When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 53 percent, 16 percent,
and 8.5 percent respectively."
Black people are roughly 13.4% of the population.
"Race of mass shooters reflects the U.S. population
Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the
racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole. While a
superficial comparison of the statistics seems to suggest African
American shooters are over-represented and Latino shooters
underrepresented, the fact that the shooter’s race is unclear in around
10 percent of cases, along with the different time frames over which
these statistics are calculated, means no such conclusions should be
drawn. Conversely, looking at the mass shootings in the United States by
gender clearly demonstrates that the majority of mass shootings are
carried out by men."
"Mass shootings and mental health
With no clear patterns between the socio-economic or cultural background
of mass shooters, increasing attention has been placed on mental health. Analysis of the factors Americans considered to be to blame for mass
shootings showed 80 percent of people felt the inability of the mental
health system to recognize those who pose a danger to others was a
significant factor. This concern is not without merit – in over half of
the mass shootings since 1982, the shooter showed prior signs of mental
health issues, suggesting improved mental health services may help deal
with this horrific problem.
Mass shootings and guns
In the wake of multiple mass shootings, critics have sought to look
beyond the issues of shooter identification and their influences by
focusing on their access to guns. The study mentioned above showed 61
percent of Americans felt the easy access to firearms was to blame by
either a “great deal” or a “fair amount” for mass shootings. Gun control
takes on a particular significance when the uniquely American phenomenon
of school shootings is considered. The annual number of incidents
involving firearms at K-12 schools in the U.S. was over 100 in each year
since 2018. Conversely, similar incidents in other developed countries exceptionally rare, with only five school shootings in G7 countries
other than the U.S. between 2009 and 2018."
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
TB
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