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On the article for Mass shootings in the United States you reverted my edit and your reason was: change to sourced statement; change does not appear to be supported by the source.
Would you be able to please explain how my edit was incorrect? The source references 49.18% white men commit public mass shootings. 18.03% more than the second highest demographic. 63.157.252.62 (talk) 02:42, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
The provided source mentions that the "white male" category does not seem to be disproportionate:"Public mass shootings of persons unrelated to the shooter, and for a reason not connected with a previous crime (the rarest but most publicized) are committed by men whose racial distribution closely matches that of the nation as a whole".
But with that said, I guess I haven't found a really clear statement about that in the source linked. I did however find something to back it up a little in another document that it links to, saying that "but that figure, too, wasn’t that far off from U.S. demographics"[2], so I'll go ahead and add it as a reference. I hope that explains my reasoning a little bit, and of course feel free to make your own changes as well."Despite the widespread perception that mass shooters are overwhelmingly white males, researchers have found that white men are not overrepresented among mass shooters. In other words, white men are no more likely than other male demographic to engage in a mass shooting."[1]
Thegreatgrabber (talk) contribs 03:51, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
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