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Showing Original Post only (View all)Nailed it!! A Tweet from "Atlanta's Mayor" going around FB. [View all]
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Do black men actually go on spree killings? I'm open, just haven't heard of any.
DesertDiamond
Dec 2012
#24
I take that back, there was one in the 1990s in Washington D.C. But seems comparatively rare.
DesertDiamond
Dec 2012
#25
Not that I recall; the DC snipers were serial killers, as was Wayne Williams (Atlanta) who was a
Nay
Dec 2012
#31
I don't know about that - I hear McVie & Terry Nicholas' names coming up alot lately as examples
jillan
Dec 2012
#7
The VA Tech shooter, Asian. The DC snipers, African American. Fort Hood's Hasan is Palestinian-Ameri
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2012
#20
The difference between DC snipers and Hasan/VA Tech shooter is that the DC snipers would be
Nay
Dec 2012
#33
Plus, those two were NOT spree killers -- they were serial killers. There HAVE been a few Black
Nay
Dec 2012
#35
I agree that that case is a bit different. I don't remember how the FBI categorizes something like
Nay
Dec 2012
#47
That makes sense to call them all 'mass shootings' and them break them down into other
Nay
Dec 2012
#50
What is even more troubling than that is that the majority of these mass murders has been by
jillan
Dec 2012
#27