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The staffWho did they poll?
Your math tracks if you mean the effect happened in the past year. Over 20 years, how does it change? 50 years?BS statistics. At ~70k Non-fatal & ~50k Fatal shootings, that anmounts to ~120k shootings per year. For 40% to know someone or have personally been impacted by gun violence, each would have to know about 7000 people. I’m sure some people are “impacted” by shootings on TV and TikToc.
100% you can't get to 50k per year without them. If we're playing with heartstrings, that's the lowest hanging fruit.Lol they are also probably including suicides as gun violence as well..... as if, somehow or another somebody shooting themselves is worse than them hanging themselves or something...
Your math tracks if you mean the effect happened in the past year. Over 20 years, how does it change? 50 years?
It also depends how we define "knowing someone." I had a reasonably close friend in college who was shot (and survived) going into a bar; surely that counts. I had a less-close friend in college who had been at Columbine on that fateful day; would she count?
Lol they are also probably including suicides as gun violence as well..... as if, somehow or another somebody shooting themselves is worse than them hanging themselves or something...
I'm sure the numbers also skew by various demographics. E.g. everyone who grows up in Dorchester or Mattapan probably knows multiple people...Point taken. I know OF some who have been shot over the decades, but the notion that 4 in 10 have connections (knowing someone/personally impacted) to gun violence suggests some level of significance that is overstated. With almost a million aggravated assaults and a half million rapes/sexual assaults yearly, knowing someone/personally impacted statistics must rise to more than 9 in 10.
Being shot, assaulted or raped is indeed traumatic. Having friends/family shot, assaulted or raped is shocking. Knowing of someone shot, assaulted or raped - call me jaded, but that’s our society and culture today.
My family was close with two other small town Iowa families in the 70s, wherein one kid shot himself and another hung himself. Both were tragedies that were only whispered about. I think us kids all thought the shotgun was messier but no less tragic.
I'm sure the numbers also skew by various demographics. E.g. everyone who grows up in Dorchester or Mattapan probably knows multiple people...
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View: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1177779153/poll-most-americans-say-curbing-gun-violence-is-more-important-than-gun-rights
Yet, no greater than 27% felt any of 6 different new gun restrictions would have a significant impact on gun violence in the US. Democrats alone didn’t break a majority for any restriction, including banning AR15s.
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More Than Four in Ten Affected by Gun Violence
”41% of Americans say that they or someone they know has experienced gun violence. 59% have not. In June of 2022, 38% reported they have been personally impacted by gun violence.”
BS statistics. At ~70k Non-fatal & ~50k Fatal shootings, that anmounts to ~120k shootings per year. For 40% to know someone or have personally been impacted by gun violence, each would have to know about 7000 people. I’m sure some people are “impacted” by shootings on TV and TikToc.
People that are willing to waste ten minutes of their life talking with a complete stranger answering mind numbingly stupid questions.Who did they poll?
NPR is the DNC.Kind of expected as the typical NPR listener wants NES types taken away in boxcars