The First Transgender School Shooter?
13th May 2019
Jim Goad takes a look behinds the myths.
Why the hell are these mass shooters always straight white males?
Well, for starters, because they’re not. According to a study of mass shootings in the USA between 1982 and February 2019, 62 out of 110 shooters were white, which comprises 56% of the total. Since non-Hispanic whites accounted for nearly 80% of the public in 1982 and currently hover at about 63%, whites have consistently been underrepresented as mass shooters over the past 37 years.
I’ve previously written about a similar myth—that there are no black serial killers. In reality, blacks are overrepresented among the ranks of serial killers by anywhere from 200% to 400%, and that’s assuming that no one counts gang members as serial killers.
Why the myths, then? It’s almost as if some people harbor intense racial hatred for whites.