Guns don’t kill people. Americans kill people. We’re great killers. Whether we’re invading countries, selling trillions of dollars of weapons to dictatorships, using drones to bomb a wedding in Yemen — or the 45,000 times a year we kill our spouse, ex-girlfriend, estranged brother, the neighbor we’re fighting with, the boss who fired us, the student who bullied us, or we simply decide to end our own life with the handy gun that’s already in the house, making it the quickest and easiest way to end our misery

And here’s why this should not be so hard to fix. We are not a nation of gun nuts. 78% of us do not own a gun! According to a 2016 investigation by Harvard-Northeastern, just 22% of all Americans own a gun, mostly for hunting. And here’s the good — and not-so-good — news: Only 3% of this country owns half of all our guns!

Big Daikon wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 8:31 am In 2016, the NYT printed data indicating that blacks committed around 75% of mass shootings in the US. This is only the solved cases, mind you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/23/us/a ... lence.html


Yes, violent crime is overwhelmingly a young, male activity

Between 1982 and November 2021, 66 out of the 125 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 10. When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 53 percent, 17 percent, and eight percent respectively.