This article links to a fascinating interactive map about shootings — fatal and non-fatal, but not including suicides — around a given address over the past year.
We hardly live in a high-crime area, and there only once incident recorded ("There has been 1 shooting within a 2-mile radius of this point in the past year, 0 fatal and 1 non-fatal. The closest shooting was 1.82 miles away.") but I didn't know about any such incident before.
Interesting.
How Many People Have Been Shot in Your Neighborhood This Year? This Map Will Tell You.
In relentless succession, a parade of towns and cities has this year joined the ranks of American mass shooting locations. The mere mention of the places—C
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A couple nearby.
If you judge by the closest shooting, my parents live in a much safer place than I do, and my brother lives in a somewhat less safe place than I do. I wonder if there is a statistically significant measure of one's personal safety that can be computed from this data.
Here, it's SHOCKING that there have been 200 fatal shootings… in four years. In a country of 4.6 million people.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/guns-ireland-claimed-209-lives-4845253
+David Newman Probably, though there are a lot of judgment calls in how to interpret the data (proximity, type of incident). Arguable as well in terms of the type of location, where you live vs where you work (and where you walk vs bike vs drive past), and so forth.