Comment on One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study

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sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

No, the title is completely accurate.

7% of living American adults have witnessed a mass shooting at least once in their lifetimes.

Mass shootings are increasingly common, all over the US.

The paper the article is based on defines a mass shooting as 4 or more struck by a bullet, which is roughly a compromise, average of widely used but not perfectly standardized definitions of a mass shooting.

This study was concerned with direct exposure to mass shootings, which were defined as “gun-related crimes where 4 or more people are shot in a public space, such as a school, shopping mall, workplace, or place of worship.” This definition was a compromise between the Congressional Research Service’s definition of a mass public shooting17 and the Gun Violence Archive’s mass shooting definition,2 designed to be inclusive of individuals who were injured and accessible to the public.

Here’s the paper, two links deep from the article.

jamanetwork.com/journals/…/2831132

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