Posted on 09/02/2019 8:09:12 PM PDT by Mr.Unique
Well, how do you like that? There is also a bigger one.
This has been going on for years you just hear about more now because of 24/7 news.
39,000 homicides in Chicago over 60 years
650 per year on average
1974 remains the city’s deadliest year in six decades with 970 homicides.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-history-of-chicago-homicides-htmlstory.html
Well, Yes.
That definition, cultivated by the Leftist media, is "some white guy shooting people at random with a scary black rifle". Bonus points for implying "white-supremist, right-wing, MAGA hat-wearing, Trump supporter".
Except that picture is false.
If the shooter is a white guy, he is usually a registered Democrat or has incoherent politics. About 70% of the time he has been on anti-depressants (SSRIs) which are known to have homicidal rebound effects when discontinued. The Odessa shooter appears to have been a methamphetamine addict.
When these sort of data are discovered the stories get quickly dropped by the media, because they do not fit the preferred narrative.
The FBI would classified this incident as a "Mass Shooting".
Of course that definition is subject to change at any time. If you are White, and the 4 idiots were Black, the incident might be reclassified as a "hate crime".
Better have your Lawyers' phone number on speed-dial.
The average white middle-class person is FAR more likely to be shot by a chronic felon, or beaten to death in a "polar bear hunting" game, then to be a victim of a "spree shooting".
Looking up 2016 stats for homicide by race of victim and offender, we have 1,043 black-on-white killings, and 414 white-on-black killings (with Hispanic counted as "white" in offender stats).
Of course staying blind to the fact that the real problem is the daily threat to the public from unhinged, insane, drug addled, drunk, just pi$$ed off humans that will kill and maim folks with anything they can get their hands on. A gun, automobile, knife, brick, hammer et al.
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