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Europe has mostly Europeans, Asia mostly Asians, Oceania (Aus & NZ) mostly Europeans.

Unsurprisingly, then, if you break down the rate of homicide by firearm in the US by race, you see similar statistics. ie. European/White Americans have a rate that puts them among the safer European countries; African Americans are among the highest in the world.

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I think it's a stretch, to out it mildly, to imply that gun violence stats are a persistent derivative of race.

That may be, but it's an objective fact that gun violence stats are strongly correlated with race. You are free to investigate or speculate on the underlying reasons for that. I didn't offer my perspective.

What are your theories on why the high end mass shooters are almost entirely of European descent then?

The mass shooting in Vegas, in Tasmania, in Norway, in New Zealand, etc?

As an objective fact (your words) extreme mass shootings are strongly correlated with race.

The rest seem more correlated with economic circumstances.

Please tell me you’re not trying to say what it seems like you’re trying to say. There are few disadvantageous statistics in the us that don’t disadvantage the black community in the US, and there’s more than correlation to back up those relationships.

Of course I'd be flagged/banned for publicly suggesting a genetic factor behind that correlation, so I wouldn't do that. I only highlighted the correlation, and it is a very strong one, between race and rate of homicide by firearm in the US. Our own biases are going to heavily influence what we perceive to be the underlying reason behind this phenomenon.

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