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Originally Posted by DaFace
This is the right answer. I don't fault people for wanting to think about this kind of stuff, but the reality is that dying from an active shooter is an incredibly unlikely way for people to die.
I'd have to look up stats to be sure, but I'd be pretty confident you'd be more likely to die from an accidental gun discharge than from an active shooter.
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Following up on my own post,
this source says there were 458 accidental gun deaths in the U.S. in 2018. In 2017 (the year of the Las Vegas shooting), there were 117 fatalities from mass shootings in the U.S. according to
this source.
So, yeah. You're at least 4x as likely to die from an accident than from a mass shooter.