The real mass shooter threat
It's valuable to know the facts, and they're not what the media claims.
Mike McDaniel | March 18, 2026
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:
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