Nora Ellingsen and Benjamin Wittes | Anatomy of a Presidential Untruth: What Data Did the Justice Department Really Provide the White House?
Today, there was another mass school shooting. Not by a MUSLIM. Not by an immigrant. By an AMERICAN. ARMED DOMESTIC TERRORISM The US has a massive GUN ISSUE that too many are silencing. Below, is a graph and comment from a blog post that address the reality: Mass shootings in U.S. are an almost daily event About 64 percent of the shooters were white men, according to a survey by Mother Jones, about the same as the white percentage of the total population. Black people were 16 percent of the total shooters, Asians were 9 percent and Latinos, native Americans and people of unknown ethnicity made up the rest. The typical mass shooter is a young man obsessed with weapons and images of violence, frustrated with work, school or relationships, with a history of minor acts of violence. Mark Follman wrote a good article in the current issue of Mother Jones about efforts to identify potential mass shooters, and turn them away from viol...