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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it was mental illness, then why don't we have similar mass shootings with mentally ill black/hispanic/asian gunmen killing large groups of white people?

Instead, it's a white guy aiming at a group of:
-Black parishoners at their Bible study (Dylan Roof)
-Hispanic/Latino families shopping at Wal-Mart (Patrick Crusis)
-Asian massage parlor workers (Robert Long)

Most mass shooters aim indiscriminately - Las Vegas shooting, Columbine, etc.

But in cases where all the victims are of predominantly one ethnic group and the shooter is of a different ethnicity, you need to first look at ethnic/racial hatred. There's not much of another explanation.

Further, if it was due to mental illness, we should see mass shooters of other races/ethnicities. We know mental illness is prevalent in those populations too. But we don't![/quote]

In 2007, the worst mass shooting to date was the Virginia Tech shootings by Seung-Hui Cho, a US resident of  South Korean heritage.

But this number was surpassed in 2016 by the Pulse nightclub murders, by Omar Mateen, of Afghani heritage.

Mental illness can strike all races and ethnicities[/quote]

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