About the Kentucky school shooter. Has anyone heard anything about

[jberryhill]

4. Uhm, no, 16 is not the minimum number

You don't have to fire 16 bullets for 16 people in a crowded space to be shot - or more generally "wounded" in some way from not being shot, but from the ensuing panic.

Bullets are hard. People are soft. That's why it's important for shooters to know what is behind their target.

If you fire the right type of round into a person in a crowd, it is going to go through that person, and into other people. Hollow points, not so much. Some ammunition is designed to go through things. Some ammunition is designed to expand and create maximum injury and momentum transfer.

But could you quote a news source saying that 16 people were shot, specifically?

I see reports like this:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-dead-after-shooting-kentucky-high-school-multiple-victims-reported-n840171

Two students were killed Tuesday and 18 other people were wounded when a 15-year-old boy armed with a handgun opened fire inside a Kentucky high school, authorities said.

That is 20 casualties, 2 fatal. But it doesn't state that the 18 other people were shot, either.

You can fire a gun in a crowded space and get a fair number of injuries, and not actually shoot anyone. I doubt any of the reporters were counting shell casings. If 20 people were taken to hospitals, that does not distinguish between people injured FROM BEING SHOT, versus people being injured from a human stampede, trips and falls, etc..

So if there is a source that says "X people were shot", based on actual knowledge of that fact, instead of, say, a news blog that assumes X injuries means X shots fired, that would be of interest.