CBS NEWS - 1 out of every 15 American adults have been at a mass shooting .....

I watched Waco live on TV as did millions of others, is CBS using that criminal incident as a basis for their complete bullshit claim?
 
I highly doubt it. But strange fact, my ex-wife was at one before it was a thing...in high school in 1988. I think the kid shot 2 or 3 people, with 1 dead IIRC.
 
Just as a matter of basic math this cannot be correct, right? Let's assume there are 500 mass shootings every year, since 1960. That's a crazy high assumption, but go with it.

500 * years since 1960 = 32,000 mass shootings. Obviously not true; that's crazy high, but let's pretend.

There are 250 million adults in the US, roughly. If 7% of them are "exposed" and 2% are "injured, that's 17.5 million people and 5,000,000 people, respectively.

So as a matter of basic math, to expose and injure that many people, each mass shooting would need to, on average, "expose" 546 people and injure 156.

There definitely have been a couple mass shootings this bad in US history, unfortunately, but a couple. Not 32,000.
 
How about we make the media responsible for what they say? Huge fines of 7 plus figures come to mind, don't report what you cant verify.
 
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