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the source, what you said ("a majority of the time tend to be committed by White, middle-aged men.") doesn't really seem to line up. Now, looking at the table I see that 49.18% is pretty close to half, but that's not a majority and really even if it were 51% I'd really be wary about calling that a majority; while it's technically true, it doesn't really represent a "majority" as most people would think about the term. It just really doesn't seem to be a good interpretation of the source material. Also, just because something is the biggest category out of multiple doesn't automatically make it the "majority". In this case, I would argue that since the highest category is less than 50%, there simply isn't a majority category at all.
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But with that said, I guess I haven't found a really clear statement about that in the source linked. I did however find something to back it up a little in another document that it links to, saying that "but that figure, too, wasn’t that far off from U.S. demographics", so I'll go ahead and add it
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Would you be able to please explain how my edit was incorrect? The source references 49.18% white men commit public mass shootings. 18.03% more than the second highest demographic.
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On the article for Mass shootings in the United States you reverted my edit and your reason was: change to sourced statement; change does not appear to be supported by the source.
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