David Shuey
2 min readJun 8, 2020

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You cherry picked argument is still "Feelings." You would have to do an actual analysis of ALL the "mass shooters" by race over a 10-year period.

But this is a stupid comparison. You include Gregory and Travis McMichaels? They called the police themselves! They were calling 911 when they were supposedly "lynching" a man they were trying to make an ill-advised citizen's arrest on!

Whatevs.

But Mass Shooters are less than 1% of murderers. My data includes 100% of people armed and unarmed dying at at the hands of police. And 95% are armed. And more the 75% are NOT black, even though just more than 50% of murderers are black.

Actions dictate outcomes. If you start a shootout with police, you will get shot at. If you give up, you will not.

And since you like anecdote, there was a famous “Dylann Storm Roof Vs Lee Boyd Malvo” meme that went around the DOES make the point that both mass murderers were treated the same.

https://destroyedforcomfort.com/2015/06/20/four-ways-that-dylann-storm-roof-vs-lee-boyd-malvo-meme-is-complete-bullshit/

And since you brought up Mass Shooters for some odd reason, I have done a mass shooting analysis to show that even in the Trump era blacks are OVERREPRESENTED as mass shooters (22.58% last time I ran the numbers). White mass shooters are UNDERREPRESENTED.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hQ5CcwlUK9TN41gnSBO1LApyHBWcAvyI8KhZUqYp6NI/edit#gid=445907580

Of a handful of shootings that involve black people, YES they were shot by police. BECAUSE they were shooting cops and injuring them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Jersey_City_shooting#Assailantshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Virginia_Beach_shootinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Illinois_shooting

A smart analysis needs to be done. Not picking examples off the vine.

Do you know of a black mass shooter shot when not shooting back? Or do you know a trend of white shooters shooting at officers and miraculously not being shot at?

Why try? This is not an honest conversation, I surmise.

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David Shuey
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