No, they aren't accurate. The numbers are from something called the Gun Violence Archive. These guys largely rely on newspaper accounts to record these events. I am sure that the first row includes suicides. Defensive Gun Uses are from newspapers, but even then they use a...
...different higher "verified" standard that they don't use for their other counts. About 95% of DGUs don't involve a gun being fired. They aren't newsworthy. About 90% of news stories on DGUs involve a death, almost all the rest are for injuries. But we know that in real life...
...injuries exceed deaths by about 7 or 8 to 1. The reason for deaths being covered in media is b/c deaths are more newsworthy. The media usually only gives initial coverage to an event, and that is often well before we know all the facts about what happened. The Gun Violence...
...Archive def of mass shootings is something that it made up itself. See crimeresearch.org/2018/05/respon… It includes "four or more people were shot at all (excluding the shooter)." This is not like either the FBI's def of mass public shootings or mass shootings. Medical Examiners and...
police departments have much more info available to them than what is usually found in initial news stories. When the FBI and CDC put together data they also try to make sure that everyone is counting these numbers the same way. There are lots of problems with the GVA claims.
