I found sources, but they have different numbers, which is why I asked you for yours.
Statista.com has it as 66 shootings by whites, 21 by African-Americans. Those are your numbers, but you said they were percentages, not numbers of shootings. The percentages are 52% white shooters and 16% African-American shooters. These are 2022 data.
US Census data have whites at 76.3% of the population and African-descent alone (i.e. not mixed race) at 13.4%. Two or more races is 2.8%. So, if that last stat bumps black-identified shooters (i.e. somebody who is said to be "black" even with mixed-race ancestry) by 1%, that brings them within a couple percentage points of their representative population.
Whites not counting Latino or Hispanic populations is 60.1%, too, so that compared to a 52% shooting stat makes European-descended persons only slightly underrepresented among shooters.
Statista was rated by mediabiasfactcheck.com in the "least biased" category with a high rating for factual accuracy.
I wanted you to cite your sources because you have different numbers and because I like to know where people are coming from. A lot of people cite stats from dubious sources, or from a vague, half-remembered realm of, "Somebody said..." and I'm not saying they're wrongly remembered, just that I'm a bit more skeptical when somebody's source is the Ubiquitous Them.
Furthermore, I think it's important to back up one's own data and not put the burden of proof for one's own arguments on other people.
You gave facts, I just want to know where they come from.
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