# This Wedks's awful Mass Murder

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-wedkss-awful-mass-murder/838157
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 4, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-wedkss-awful-mass-murder/838157 "2019-08-04T04:52:19Z")
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### Author: ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2019, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-wedkss-awful-mass-murder/838157/81 "2019-08-06T06:06:42Z")

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> [@SlackerInc](#):
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> 75% of mass shootings in which (per the NY Times) **the shooters are black.**

> [@Why does the media portray mass shooters as mostly white men?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-the-media-portray-mass-shooters-as-mostly-white-men/837043/8):
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> nearly three-fourths of\*\* victims and suspected assailants\*\* whose race could be identified were black

In which SlackerInc somehow decides that victims and shooters are the same thing.

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