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- aboringdystopia
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- aboringdystopia
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.
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