Number of Texans who've won the Powerball Jackpot since 1995: 0
Number of Mass Shooting Events in Texas since 1995: 19
Number of MSE Fatalities just in Texas since 1995: 166
Number of MSE Injuries just in Texas since 1995: ~500
Number of those immediately adjacent to mass shooting events in Texas since 1995, suffering severe emotional damage: ~Tens of Thousands
Many of us are guilty of using hyperbolic examples for effect (powerball, lightning strikes, Covid-19 death rates, etc.). But when it comes to gun statistics, you gotta get that shit right.
Obviously, there is an extremely small chance any of us are anywhere near a mass shooter event. We get that. The problem I have with them is the randomness, volume of carnage, and inability to substantially de-risk it. I'm 20x more likely to die in a traffic fatality on a motor cycle than in my truck. So I don't ride a motorcycle. Doesn't mean an 18-wheeler can't still kill me, but I've driven the odds down to almost zero. Lightning can still strike me, but it's a slim chance...and effectively zero if I don't make it a habit of being the tallest thing for a mile in any direction during a lightning storm directly overhead.
I can do little things each day to reduce already small probabilities to basically zero. Buying weed once a year likely means I will never be involved in gang or drug war shootings, but working as a drug trafficker all week...your chances rise considerably that you'll be involved in a related shooting. So I can pretty easy not get involved in gang or cartel business. What I have to do though, is send my kids to school, I have to go to the grocery store, I have to attend church services, I have to go to work. I can't de-risk that. I can't avoid that like I can avoid drag racing, extreme weather, or the drug trade. I don't live in fear, I live in frustration.
If the "good guy with a gun" stopped this shit at even Mendoza line levels, .200, I'd pack in public each and every day. But the reality is closer to the batting average of Dave Dravecky, after he lost his arm.