The real mass shooter threat

The real mass shooter threat

It's valuable to know the facts, and they're not what the media claims.

Mike McDaniel for American Thinker

It’s well known the American media operates primarily on Democrat narratives and talking points. Their “news” coverage must align with those narratives and talking points, or legitimate news stories are ignored or so altered as to have little resemblance to reality. Thus was the recent NYC terrorist bomb attack near Gracie Mansion portrayed as an unfortunate mishap involving two Philadelphia teenagers on a day excursion in the Big Apple. It was also portrayed as a direct attack on Mayor Zhoran Mamdani, an Islamist Communist, even though there is no evidence the terrorist attackers had any idea they were near his residence or whether he might be there. Mamdani did his part to fulfill one cherished media narrative by blaming the attack on “white supremacists.”

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But do white supremacists really commit most mass public shooting attacks? The media would have us believe no group is so dangerous as white supremacists, though few, if any Americans can attest to knowing or meeting one. For most Americans, such people are justly pariahs. Fortunately, Dr. John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center keeps track of the facts, in this case, via Real Clear Politics:

Looking at all mass public shootings from 1998 through 2025 reveals several patterns. Muslims commit these crimes at a disproportionate rate. White males commit them at a rate below their share of the population. And most shooters express no clear political ideology.

From January 1998 to December 2025, the United States experienced 108 mass public shootings by 111 shooters. Eight of those shooters were Muslim – 7.2% of the total. During that same period, Muslims averaged about 0.4% of the U.S. population. In other words, their share of attacks was 18 times their share of the population.

One might think there were far more such shootings during that period, but that’s due to statistical manipulation by local police forces loath to honestly report out-of-control crime and the FBI. The media’s manipulation of the news is also to blame. How many of those attackers so much as hinted at white supremacist ideology? Not many:

By contrast, seven attackers – 6.5% of the total – expressed white supremacist, neo-Nazi, or anti-immigrant views.

One certainly need not be a white supremacist to be concerned about illegal immigration. And three of those killers were partially or largely motivated by environmental lunacy.

These attackers also described themselves as anti-capitalist, anti-conservative, and supportive of worker ownership of the means of production. Despite those claims, news media outlets consistently label them broadly as right-wing extremists or white supremacists.

Despite media narratives, the facts just don’t support the idea of white guys representing a unique, domestic terrorist danger:

Overall, non-Middle Eastern whites make up about 64% of the U.S. population but account for roughly 55% of mass public shooters. Seven attacks involved individuals of Middle Eastern origin – 6.4% of attackers – about 16 times their share of the population. That makes Middle Easterners the most disproportionate ethnic or racial group involved in mass public shootings during this period. Blacks, Asians, and American Indians commit these attacks at slightly higher rates than their shares of the population, while Hispanics commit them at substantially lower rates – about 9% below their share of the population.

As I’ve been warning for some time, there is a heightened danger of terrorism within America from two primary sources: Islamist sleeper cells let into the country during the Biden’s Handlers’ years, and individual, self-radicalized Islamists. The former represent the greatest potential danger in terms of sheer damage as they’re state-sponsored and controlled, well-armed with automatic weapons and explosives, and fanatically programmed to kill as many Americans as they can until they run out of ammunition and are killed by responding police or armed Americans. The later are potentially less able to inflict mass casualties, but no less dangerous. 

Of the four terrorist attacks happening between March 1 and March 12. Only four Americans were killed and 13 wounded. Three of the terrorists were killed. One was shot by police, one shot himself when he failed to kill hundreds of Jewish children, and one was stabbed to death by a ROTC cadet. 

Lott’s statistics do not apparently take into account those four attacks, and should Iran unleash its sleeper cells, the proportion of Islamist attacks would surely dramatically increase. Still, it’s valuable to know the facts, particularly when we can’t trust the media to provide them.