Bait and Switch: Public Health Survey Claims 18 million American Adults Present at Mass Shootings and 5.6 million Injured. The Definition of Mass Shootings the Survey Starts with is Less than 3% of the Number they claim, and that is Likely an Overestimate

Bait and Switch: Public Health Survey Claims 18 million American Adults Present at Mass Shootings and 5.6 million Injured. The Definition of Mass Shootings the Survey Starts with is Less than 3% of the Number they claim, and that is Likely an Overestimate

A new survey titled “Exposure to Mass Shootings in the United States: A National Survey” and published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (SPPE) claims that approximately 6.95% of U.S. adults reported having been present at the scene of a mass shooting (17.93 million), and about 2.18% sustained injuries during such incidents (5.6 million). There were 258 million adults in the US in 2023. ​The beginning of the paper starts by stati…