A year after the 9/11 attacks, the Washington DC area was rocked by a series of random sniper attacks that left 10 people dead. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the shootings, the men behind them, how police caught them, and why they went on their murder spreeAI-powered
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How We Caught the D.C. Beltway Snipers (Beltway Snipers, John Muhammad, Lee Malvo)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
The Role of Race in Mass Shootings
There were 137 mass shootings in the US between 1982 and 2022. That's just 3.4 mass shootings a year, according to Statistica Research Department. The largest ethnic group in the United States is people of European ancestry. It wouldn't be at all unreasonable to conjecture that this is the ethnic group the snipers belong to.
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