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Aug 7, 20191 min

Why are white men carrying out more racist mass shootings?

Updated: May 1, 2023

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Their names now join a roll call of mostly white men attached to the atrocities.

About 60% of America is white-only, while current stats show white people carry out about 58% of shootings. But as a proportion of all races and shootings, white people far outstrip others.

In July, FBI director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee: "I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence, but it does include other things as well."

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