Comment on One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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.
Lennard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Well that’s more than enough to feel major effects on your mental health
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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.