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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]

Absolutely 100000000000% false.  Belt way snipers were minorities. DC naval yard shooter was a minority.  VA beach shooter was a minority. VA tech shooter s minority. For god's sake man, Emanuel Samson, a minority, shot up a church in TN specifically with the goal of shooting white people.  In all of those cases the victims were predominantly white.  Yet where's your discussion of race wrt those shootings?

Personally, do I think racism was involved in those shootings? Mostly no. Crazy gunmen are gonna kill who they come across first.

Get your head out of the sand. There are plenty of examples of minority shooters who've killed mostly white people, yet you choose to ignore for some reason.[/quote]

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