Assuming 1:1 shooter to victim, which isn’t a safe assumption, but it gives us the largest number of shooters in the year, that means 0.109% of gun owners shoot someone every year.
Or, inversely, 99.89% of gun owners don’t shoot anyone.
Massachusetts does not allow others to inject themselves and stop crimes. The likelihood anyone had a firearm near her was low since Massachusetts has concealed carry restrictions in public. The journalist herself also could not carry a firearm because of her residence status.
aren’t guns supposed to be protecting people? thats all I hear americans crying about
Gun owners mostly shoot:
Technically, most gun owners don’t shoot anything.
32% of Americans say they own a gun:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/
So on a population of 340 million, that’s approximately 108,800,000 gun owners.
According to Brady, 327 people are shot every day:
https://www.bradyunited.org/resources/statistics
327*365 = 119,355 people shot each year.
Assuming 1:1 shooter to victim, which isn’t a safe assumption, but it gives us the largest number of shooters in the year, that means 0.109% of gun owners shoot someone every year.
Or, inversely, 99.89% of gun owners don’t shoot anyone.
Well not annually.
Well sure, but at a rate of 0.109% per year, it would take 459.63 years to cross the 50% mark for “most”. :)
Massachusetts does not allow others to inject themselves and stop crimes. The likelihood anyone had a firearm near her was low since Massachusetts has concealed carry restrictions in public. The journalist herself also could not carry a firearm because of her residence status.