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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?
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.
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?
6,828,820 is 2% of the population listed on census.gov right now.
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.
They're also counting people who can hear it, so that's a few blocks worth of people indoors and out.
And if they're counting gang violence incidents, those are usually in more populated areas, so that would mean any one instance automatically affects more people.
But I think if, without any other prompting, you asked someone who was near a drive-by shooting, whether they were in a mass shooting, they would say no. Gang violence and school shootings are both gun violence, but they're not really in the same category because they have different causes and motivations.