by Tdarcos » Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:25 pm
I would say your chances of beimg a shooting victim in a theater in the U.S. is much less than the chance of dying in an earthquake or tornado. According to NATO - that's the National Association of Theater Owners, not the military organization - as of May 2016, there are a total of 5,833 movie theaters and 40,759 movie screens in the US. Assuming each screen has an average of 5 shows a day, that means there are over 200,000 movie showings each day in the US. Call it 60 million showings a year. So let's count figures for the last three years, with 180 million movie showings, how many bad incidents of violence?
In 2018 there were 340 mass shhotings. Not theater shootings, but mass shootings in general. None of those occurred in a theater. If we go back as far as 2010 there have been three incidents of violence in theatres: February 2010, suburban Los Angeles, 3 stabbed, none killed; July 2012, Aurora Colorado, twelve killed and 70 more injured; January 2014, Florida, 1 shot and killed.
In 9½ years, 13 people have died and 74 have been injured in theater-related violence. During 2018 alone, 4'.5 million were injured and 40,000 killed in automobile accidents, the third year in a row that yearly deaths reached 40,000 or more. That means since 2016, over 10 million people have been injured and 120,000+ killed in automobile accidents, and zero have been killed or injured in theaters - unless you count the risk of heart attack from the food they serve.
Oh as I said before the chances of being killed in an earthqake or tornado are greater than in a theater. From 2016 through July 2019, one person has died from an earthquake. From 2016-2018, 63 people died in tornadoes.
You're statistically far more likely to be killed or injured driving to and from the theater than anything happening in the theater, unless the movie is so.bad you die of boredom, but that's natural causes and doesn't count.
I would say your chances of beimg a shooting victim in a theater in the U.S. is much less than the chance of dying in an earthquake or tornado. According to NATO - that's the National Association of Theater Owners, not the military organization - as of May 2016, there are a total of 5,833 movie theaters and 40,759 movie screens in the US. Assuming each screen has an average of 5 shows a day, that means there are over 200,000 movie showings each day in the US. Call it 60 million showings a year. So let's count figures for the last three years, with 180 million movie showings, how many bad incidents of violence?
In 2018 there were 340 mass shhotings. Not theater shootings, but mass shootings in general. None of those occurred in a theater. If we go back as far as 2010 there have been three incidents of violence in theatres: February 2010, suburban Los Angeles, 3 stabbed, none killed; July 2012, Aurora Colorado, twelve killed and 70 more injured; January 2014, Florida, 1 shot and killed.
In 9½ years, 13 people have died and 74 have been injured in theater-related violence. During 2018 alone, 4'.5 million were injured and 40,000 killed in automobile accidents, the third year in a row that yearly deaths reached 40,000 or more. That means since 2016, over 10 million people have been injured and 120,000+ killed in automobile accidents, and zero have been killed or injured in theaters - unless you count the risk of heart attack from the food they serve.
Oh as I said before the chances of being killed in an earthqake or tornado are greater than in a theater. From 2016 through July 2019, one person has died from an earthquake. From 2016-2018, 63 people died in tornadoes.
You're statistically far more likely to be killed or injured driving to and from the theater than anything happening in the theater, unless the movie is so.bad you die of boredom, but that's natural causes and doesn't count.