What Is Up With All Of The White Guys Committing Mass Shootings?

This story has been updated following the recent 2022 Mass Shootings.

I am going to come out and address the proverbial elephant in the mass shooting room: what is up with all of the White guys committing mass shootings?

Of all of the mass shootings that have occurred since 1982 up until this year, 56% of them were committed by one group; White men. Well over half. That figure alone make me wonder, what is it about white men and boys and mass shootings? What is it about these males that make them susceptible to such vicious and brutal acts of violence, more so than any other group?

A lot of people have a lot of theories. Some blame drugs. Some blame violent video games. Some say that it is a mental health crisis.

I beg to differ. This isn’t a mental health crisis. If it were, there would be way more violence and the perpetrators of said violence would varied and wide ranging since people of all ages, genders, belief systems, and ethnicities suffer mental health crises.

And drugs? Really? When communities of color have long been plagued by drugs, yet the number of mass shootings committed by Black men stands at 16%, while Latino and Asian men stand at 7% each. Still too high, but nowhere near their White counterparts.