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One-third of Americans stop visiting public places for fear of executions

A new survey by the American Psychological Association (APA) and Harris Poll suggests that a third of adult Americans avoid visiting certain places or events because of the fear of mass executions.

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The survey, released shortly after the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, that killed 31 people over the course of one weekend, found that the vast majority of American adults—79%—experience some amount of stress related to mass shootings. writes Time.

A third of the respondents said that their fear of executions was so great that they avoided visiting certain places or events, almost a quarter admitted that they had changed their lives to a certain extent because of the fear of mass executions.

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Social events, shopping malls, schools and movie theaters topped the list of places that most often cause fear among Americans because of possible mass shootings. Recently, mass executions in the United States took place in each of these places. This year alone, they took place at a bank, college, warehouse, municipal center, culinary festival, Walmart, and downtown.

Nearly a third of Hispanic adults, compared to 15% of white adults, said they were stressed due to mass shootings “often or constantly.” 60% of black Americans, 50% of Hispanics and 41% of white Americans said that they did not exclude that they or someone they knew would be the victim of such violence.

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Women are more likely than men to experience stress due to mass executions (85% vs 71%); 62% of parents said they “live in fear” that their children may become victims of mass shooting. Previous APA studies show that feelings are mutual.

In total, at the beginning of August in the USA in 2019 there were 8 mass executions, which claimed the lives of 62 people. Mass shooting is considered to be in a public place, as a result of which three or more people die.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

  • In early August, two large-scale mass shootings took place in the United States at once.
  • As a result, shooting at the mall in the city of El Paso, 22 people died, more than 20 were injured. It has become the deadliest day in Texas history.
  • 4 August 24-year-old Connor Betts staged a mass shooting at bar entrance in dayton, Ohio, which killed nine people, among whom was the arrow shooter Megan Betts.

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