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Summary
A new study from the University of Colorado Boulder finds that 7% of U.S. adults have witnessed a mass shooting, and over 2% have been injured in one.
Researchers define mass shootings as incidents where four or more people are shot in public spaces. With nearly 5,000 such events since 2014, experts stress the need for public health strategies to address the psychological and physical impacts.
The study highlights how mass shootings are not isolated events but a widespread issue affecting millions of Americans.
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That’s seems high. I know way more than 15 people and none of them have seen a mass shooting
Depressing counterpoint: some people know a whole schools worth of people who has seen a mass shooting.
Fair point
Awful. Headline number still seems high when there’s hundreds of millions in the USA.
considering theres an average of 1 school shooting per week and another couple hundred of mass shootings per year in america, it seems quite believable to me, especially since one shooting can have hundreds of witnesses.
I mean do those numbers add up? Even at one per week, that’s like 52 per year on average? Each of em would have to have 10s of millions to add up to 1/15 of US population.
well, lets assume we only count school shootings, the average school having 500+ students, each year there should around be +25.000 people who have witnessed a school shooting. the average age being 40 in america you can increase that number to lets say 1mil people who have witnessed a school shooting, as a gross estimate. yeah 1/15th is gonna be tough to reach even if you added all other mass shootings as i doubt they have 500+ witnesses each time. youre probably right
Not of it’s over an average lifespan, or even just adulthood. 50 years of mass shootings gets us a lot closer to 1/15th, even assuming some of the people have witnessed more than one.
Respondents were asked: “Have you personally ever been physically present on the scene of a mass shooting in your lifetime?”
Unfortunately, it’s a self-reported study. While there is a lot of math used in self-reporting to account for people who lie or misunderstand the question, the results likely aren’t reproducible.
Self-reported studies can be helpful in some ways but they have deep limitations on accuracy as opposed to “feels.”
Arguably, without mass surveillance and access to data from mass surveillance, there really isn’t another good way to find out who was in physical proximity to a mass shooting other than self-reporting.
Hi, my name is sp3ctr4l, good to meet you!
A few years back, I was walking along a sidewalk, heading home from a bar, approaching within 100 feet of a group of people.
But, before I got too close, a car came screaming down the road from in front of me, and then slowed way down as it got parallel with the group.
… And then a krink (AK pistol) emerged from a window, magazine emptied, whole lot of blood curdling screaming and possibly some return fire (sounded like a different caliber) as I dove through some hedges for cover.
Thats a mass shooting, I could have been shot, perhaps now maybe you could say you know me.
“But that’s gang violence, it doesn’t count.”
- some people, for whatever reason
That number seems incomprehensible, and absolutely gut-wrenching. The fact we have to continue down this path of generational PTSD and survivor syndrome is maddening and heartbreaking.
Yeah, I am expecting fireworks displays being a thing of the past in a few years.
Drone light shows are really cool I guess.
Also better for wildlife and pets.
I know of a friend that had their dog jump out of 6 story apartment because of fireworks in the area. It did not end well.
Adults. I expect this number to skyrocket as gen A becomes adults. Considering they are the kids carrying bullet proof backpacks and doing active shooter drills in school.
Remember when this was one of the higher things on the list of concerns?
And then we decided not to do anything about it. No gun control, no mental health services, no improvement to communities.
2% have been injured? Out of 250 million adults? 5 million Americans have been injured in mass shootings? Over 50 years, 100000 every year? Over 200 every day?
This can’t be right… that would mean that on average my town of 100,000 people should contain about 1,400 adults who have been injured in some way specifically during a mass shooting. I feel like it’s off by orders of magnitude?
With 500 mass shootings/year, that’s a whole lot of mass casualty events happening every day here that we just dont hear about, I guess? Even if these are drivebys, thats a whole lot of people standing around in the street where it happens. Idk, without digging into the methodology of the study this seems pretty suspect.
In the survey of 10,000 people just under 7% of respondents answered yes and 2.18 % of respondents said they had been injured, which not only includes having been shot, but also struck by shrapnel or trampled by people fleeing the scene or suffering other injuries as they sought to escape.
That does seem very high though.
Why is this data collected through a survey and not pure statistics? Can’t you lie on a survey? This is bat shit crazy. These numbers aren’t real. Maybe people were responding yes to witnessing a mass shooting because they saw a video? I mean I guess they technically did. But 2 percent of the population being injured in a mass shooting is just straight up fake news. Unless we are counting like a psychological injury from seeing a video maybe but that’s wack.
