” A CDC study combined with a FBI study reveals that far more people were killed on bicycles and from falling than by mass shootings.
An FBI study revealed that from 2000 to 2013 there were 64 incidents of “mass shootings”–and that the gunmen involved in these caused 418 deaths.
The New York Times and AP covered the study, but only
focused on the rise in mass shootings, not a comparison of the number of
mass shooting deaths to other deaths.
If you look at the numbers, more deaths were caused by people on bicycles in one year, according to the CDC, than the entire fourteen year period of mass shootings.
That’s right. There were 800 people killed by bicycles in 2010, more than…"
http://greyenigma.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/fbicdc-report-nearly-twice-as-many-killed-on-bikes-in-one-year-than-all-mass-shootings-since-2000/
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