Engber then writes(extremely provocatively)
that the reason we are impressed by African Americans only being 25 percent more likely to shoot many people at once is because they are so much more likely to kill individuals than whites are- 630 percent more likely- with most of those victims being black:.
For, Engber shows(using the data base compiled by Mother Jones Magazine),
while 56 percent of mass murderers(defined by the CDC as involving three or more victims) are white, this underrepresents the presence of whites in the general population, from which the rate of mass murderers is calculated, while Asians and African Americans are overrepresented:.