1 out of every 15 American adults have been at a mass shooting, according to University of Colorado study

Avoid large -scale shooting and their loved ones, as well as new research, are creating more awareness about gun violence. A new study by the University of Colorado Boulder suggests that 1 in 15 American adults have been on a mass shooting scene. This study defines a collective shoots as an event when four or more people are shot in a public place.

This research comes as those in the boulder community who gathered four years later to remember 2021 King soppers shooting It killed 10 people and impressed countless others.

The influence includes Erica Mahoni whose father Kevin was killed during grocery purchases that day. Four years later, it is easy to see Mahon’s strong bond with his father in family albums and frames across the house.

Mahoni showed CBS News Colorado to some of the pictures in which they were described through Through.

“Here we are in the kitchen, and Dad, I am wearing a huge jacket of my father,” said Mahoni. “This is motivating her face to see, but I listen to her even while saying, like, keep going.”

As a former journalist, Mahoni is now dedicated to her life to share her kind stories and documentation of permanent effects of gun violence.

“The news covers the beginning (large -scale firing), and the most difficult part is in the years where you are crying in the corner, or you can’t shop for grocery, or you are, you know, remember your father, remember your father and this is Father’s Day,” said “Mahoni said.

To demonstrate those moments and generational pain A collective shootingShe is releasing a new podcast in this spring. Fainted Boulder will feature more than a dozen people affected by gun violence.

“In your heart, this podcast is actually a love letter for my father, and it’s about how we move after the tragedy,” said Mahoni.

One of his podcast guests will be David Puj, Professor of Sociology and Professor of Criminologist at Institute for Behavioral Science at CU Boulder. His episode will break his new study that came up with figures behind 1 in 1, or about 7% of American adults have done an average in a large -scale shooting scene.

“This means that you were directly in the surrounding area, where you could see the shooter. There were pills that were fired in your direction, or if you could not directly see the shooter, that you could listen to the gunshots,” Pyroz said.

Last year, 10,000 people were surveyed and studied in that number. Research also reported that more than 2% of American adults have been injured during large -scale shooting.

Pyroz explains, “Large -scale firing, I know they know that they are around the world, but, you know, in the United States, such a solid interest has such a solid interest and focus on it, and we should target to understand it better.”

Meanwhile, Mahoni continues to remember Reality of collective violence – And take the needle to stop them.

“If we can feel that it affects many people, it can actually show beyond any number, because I am not involved in the data, and I was shocked, and so, you know, I know, I think I think I think the ripple effect is so big that we can imagine,” Mahoni said.