yeah I know you did not ask!
By any definition of the word terrorism that I can think of, drive-by shootings fit into the category of terrorism. So why are we not mobilizing against this internal terrorism? Sadly, the answer that I can come with involves race and class.
There is not a lot being reported on this, but one study I did find cited the following statistics from 2006:
“During the six-month period covered in this report, 549 drive-by shooting incidents were reported in the news media as identified by Google, claiming 156 lives and injuring 465 individuals.” 1
Earlier in the document the authors made the statement that they believed drive-by shootings to be vastly under reported.