r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Country Club Thread DEMAND JUSTICE FOR MASON

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u/Young_KingKush ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Has there even been any Black school shooters? I would more expect a Black kid to have shot somebody at school as opposed to doing a mass shooting at the school.

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u/OhPxpi ☑️will name his son "Jiraiya" 🐸 Sep 05 '24

Of course there’s been black shooters at a school. They’re just not mass shootings, meaning they were specifically targeting someone they had beef with.

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u/slimtonun ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Exactly. It’s usually some grievance directed at one person not at everyone and their mom who happened to be in the vicinity.

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids ☑️ Sep 06 '24

No we don't go to class and shoot people. Black people will shoot at the school if the target is there, but Black people aren't going to class, getting the gun and spraying everyone. Most of the time these shooters don't even go to the school.

Like if there is a football/basketball game at the school and the target is there, they'll come and shoot at the target. These white kids will go to their school and go from class to class shooting anybody.

Both scenarios are bad and nobody around should be subjected to that violence, period.

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u/Electrical-Help5512 Sep 05 '24

Shootings that happen at schools are different than "school shootings" A fight that escalates into a shooting isn't going to get the coverage a psycho randomly targeting students will.

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u/SimonPho3nix Sep 05 '24

That's...a weird take, seeing as both situations should immediately trigger whatever school shooter protocols exist. At least, this is my understanding.

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u/Electrical-Help5512 Sep 05 '24

I mean how they're perceived by the public and media.

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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor ☑️ Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

Yeah it’s Black shooters but that shits not usually indiscriminate. It’s usually targeted and related to drama outside the school.

I remember kids would get caught bringing pistols to school and kids getting shot close to campus. Despite that, a mass killer scenario seemed remote. Hell, we knew the school library was one of the safest place to be.

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u/IgnotusRex Sep 05 '24

Google provided 2 examples.

Tyrone Mitchell in 1984.

Latina Williams in 2008.

Mitchell fired upon an elementary school playground from a balcony across the street. 1 student was killed plus a passerby, as well as wounding many others. Killed himself before police breeched the house. Dude was a whack job.

Williams walked out of one her classes at Louisiana Technical College and then came back in a few minutes later with a .357. Killed 2 classmates then herself. Best guess seems to be that she was suicidal, but she didn't leave a note. She got the gun from a pawnshop the day before.

One happened well before the school shooting epidemic. The other doesn't even get counted as a mass shooting by a 4+ definition. I doubt it had any national news coverage to speak of. I sure don't remember it, and I watched the news almost every day in 2008.

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u/beatles910 Sep 05 '24

From 1966 to January 2024, 81 percent of mass public shooters who carried out the shooting at K-12 schools in the United States identified as White, followed by 13 percent who were Native American and six percent who were Latinx. For mass public shootings occurring at colleges and universities, the shooter was most likely to identify as Asian, at 44 percent, followed by 33 percent who were White. In addition, Black and Middle Eastern shooters each made up 11 percent.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/

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u/Queen_E1204 ☑️ Sep 05 '24

There was one school shooting at a school in my city a couple years ago where it was a Black person. I don't think it was a kid tho. And the school and area was predominantly Black. In any case, it's def out of the norm.

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u/Aware-One7511 Sep 05 '24

Yes, there has. Not as common, but yes.

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u/ThroatExplosion ☑️ Sep 05 '24

If it was there would actually be some legislation on gun control passing

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u/No-Concentrate-2928 Sep 05 '24

Uchia type deal

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u/DukeOfBlack Sep 05 '24

Most of us are taught to handle adversity at an early age, most of them are not. The worst thing society could do is make the white man feel marginalized.

Taxation, no representation = war

Take away our slaves = war

Take away our ability to influence your economy = war

Make fun of me at school = mass shootings

Take away our ability to marginalize other races = Trump

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u/viperspm Sep 05 '24

Wow! That’s very racist. 109 people were shot during the 4th of July weekend in Chicago. Almost all in black and latino neighborhoods. Being a piece of shit that shoots at people is a human problem. Not a race problem

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u/Realsober ☑️ Sep 05 '24

Why do you guys always bring up Chicago. You know Black folks live in other cities too?

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u/yogurtgrapes Sep 05 '24

Mass shootings are overwhelmingly committed by white male shooters.

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u/Consistent_Race8857 Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

300+ school shootings

Wonder what race 99% of them are

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u/Limp-Distribution155 Sep 05 '24

Not school shooting but the only time I've ever seen a black shooter in a mass shooting was that war veteran that shot up the place he was playing army in

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u/Gerassa Sep 05 '24

There was one in Michigan but he was very mentally ill IIRC