[bilbo0s]

>You have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than dying from extremism...

I know this is pedantic, but you got me curious so I went to check the numbers.

Odds of death in mass shooting (US only): 1 in 11,125

Odds of death by lightning strike (US only): 1 in 161,831

So it seems that it's actually a lot more likely for an American to die in a mass shooting than it is for us to die in lightning strikes.

Edit:

Sorry. The source was the National Safety Council, National Center for Health Statistics, and the Cato Institute.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mass-shooting-gun-statistics...

[tomp]

From the same source:

Odds of death by police: 1 in 7700

Odds of death by car ("any motor vehicle incident"): 1 in 315

I'd agree with basetop, I'd rather live in a world free of censorship and "full" of extremism.

[solidsnack9000]

These seem like very high odds.

Odds of death by car ("any motor vehicle incident"): 1 in 315

Per the source, "any motor vehicle incident" is actually 1 in 108.

[tomp]

They're lifetime odds, not yearly.

> 1 in 108

Oops you're right, I picked the wrong line :D

[s1artibartfast]

Not all mass shootings stem from extremism. Gang violence also falls under the same definition.

Also from the business insider:

"There is no broadly accepted definition of a mass shooting. The Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are "shot and/or killed" at "the same general time and location."

Another source suggests that death rate from "Islamic terrorism" in the US is somewhere around 1 in 3,500,000. If you presume other types of extremism are similar, there is still a significant difference from the mass shooting rate.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-mass-shootings-in-a...

https://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/since.html

[tomp]

> Another source suggests that death rate from "Islamic terrorism" in the US is somewhere around 1 in 3,500,000.

Yeah, that can't be right. Or, it can be, if one only takes into account years after 2001, when at least 3000 people were killed, or 1 in 100 000 US residents.

[s1artibartfast]

The 1 in 3,500,000 rate is for years 1975 to 2015 and includes the 9/11 attack. Since 2001, the rate is about 6 deaths per year for a total of 100 over 17 years. This gives a post 2001 rate of less than one in 50 million.

See page 4 of the previously referenced document.

[tomp]

Ah, so you're likely using the annual rate. Parent was using lifetime risk.

[s1artibartfast]

Very good point, I missed that

[JudgeWapner]

edit: I mixed up yearly statistics vs "lifetime likelihood". I'll leave what I wrote for posterity

If the US population is 328,000,000, and each of us has a "1:11,125 odds" of dying in a mass shooting, that would seem to indicate that there are 328m/11,125 = 29,483 "mass shooting deaths" in any given year (I'm happy to accept corrections on my math here, maybe I'm completely missing something). That's patently false, and quite a spurious definition of "mass shooting". My definition of "mass shooting" is an unprovoked attack for terroristic reasons. i.e. NOT a { jealous spouse/drug dealers/gang bangers }. I don't keep an active tally, but I would estimate the number on an "average" year to be about 50, double that during the year we had the vegas shooting. 50/year puts the odds at rougly 1:6,560,000, or about 40x less likely than getting killed by a lightning strike.

[s1artibartfast]

Gang violence also falls under the same definition. Also from the business insider:

"There is no broadly accepted definition of a mass shooting. The Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are "shot and/or killed" at "the same general time and location."

[pathseeker]

getting struck by lightning != death by lightning strike