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So I heard someone repeat the narrative I heard many times that al mass shooters are straight white males. Never looked into it before, sounded legitimate since I can only recall white males as mass shooters in the news. So I decided to do some quick research.

To my surprise it is actually **less** likely for a white person to be a mass shooter than other races. Below is a breakdown of races of mass shooters and a breakdown of the races of the general population in the USA. As you can see the proportion of mass shooters who are white is smaller than the portion in the general population.

I want to be clear I am **not** using this in an attempt to make the false and incorrect claim that minorities are prone to violence, they are not. I am simply using it to debunk the myth of the white shooter.

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