Hayden DanielSpecial to Valley NewsMany people were quick to assume the perpetrator of the mass shooting Monday, March 22, in Boulder, Colorado, was a White man.Police revealed Tuesday, March 23, that the alleged shooter was 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, leading some users to quickly issue corrections or delete their posts. Jumping to the conclusion that a mass shooter is a White male has become extremely common in the past few years, but the phenomenon raises an important question. Are most mass shooters White men?While White perpetrators make up a majority of mass shooters in the last 40 years, the racial makeup of American mass shooters is roughly equivalent to that of the country as a whole.Roughly 55% of mass shooters from 1982 to 2019 were White, while 17% we
