One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study - eviltoast
Report finds that 7% of Americans have been present at the scene of a mass shooting and 2% have been injured in one

One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting, a new study shows, revealing the depth and impact of the epidemic of gun violence that has washed over the US in recent decades.

The study found that about 7% of US adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one, according to new a report from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Since 2014, there have been nearly 5,000 mass shootings documented nationwide, with more than 500 occurring annually since 2020, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    The University of Colorado researchers defined “physically present” as “in the immediate vicinity of where the shooting occurred at the time it occurred, such that bullets were fired in your direction, you could see the shooter, or you could hear the gunfire”.

    Given how loud a gunshot is, that is a very wide net to cast. Still a remarkable statistic though.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
        1·
        6 hours ago

        It is, but if someone said to me they were involved in a shooting, and I later found out they’d heard the shots from a block away, I’d definitely look at them sideways.