33 Times More People Die from Falls in a Single Year than in 24 Years of Mass Shootings

[Anti Federalist]

FBI, National Safety Council Data: 33 Times More People Die from Falls in a Single Year than in 24 Years of Mass Shootings

33 Times More Deaths from Falls in One Year than in 24 Years of Mass Shootings

Over 1,400 people were killed in "active shooter incidents" 2000-2024 but 47,026 people were killed in falls in 2023 alone.

www.breitbart.com

AWR Hawkins 12 Dec 2025

FBI stats show 1,432 people were killed in “active shooter incidents” from 2000-2024, and the National Safety Council reported 47,026 people were killed in falls in 2023 alone.

According to the FBI, there were “556 incidents” in the timeframe of 2000-2024, resulting in 1,432 killed and 2,489 wounded.

The year with the highest number of casualties during the studied timeframe was 2017, with 734 deaths. The second highest year was 2016, with 214 deaths.

But figures from the National Safety Council show a whopping 47,026 people died from falls in 2023. Moreover, the National Safety Council noted “more than 8.8 million people treated in emergency rooms for fall-related injuries in 2023.”

Additionally in 2023, the National Safety Council pointed out “there were 100,304 deaths from preventable poisoning.”

In summary: 1,432 deaths in mass shootings, or “active shooter incidents,” during the timeframe 2000-2024 versus 47,026 deaths from falls in 2023 alone. Over 100,000 deaths occurred in 2023 due to poisoning.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Common sense fall control. We need to regulate how many people can fall to their deaths.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Politicians: "Obviously, we meed more gun control - and we must repeal the Law of Gravity. It's for the children."

 

[Dr.3D]

Common sense fall control. We need to regulate how many people can fall to their deaths.

Just make it illegal to fall.

Put up a "No fall zone sign."

 

[Anti Federalist]

Two Helmet Act

 

[Danke]

Those must be POC being tripped or pushed by the devil white man.

 

[TheCount]

The statistics say that my life is more threatened by my bathtub and my money more threatened by my government.

Why should I hate black people instead of plumbers and politicians?

You didn't find this argument convincing when it was about black crime. Changed your mind?

 

[Voluntarist]

You didn't find this argument convincing when it was about black crime. Changed your mind?

I imagine it's the same type of comparison that you'd get if you plugged "homicides committed by undocumented immigrants" into the comparison.

 

[Anti Federalist]

You didn't find this argument convincing when it was about black crime. Changed your mind?

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[nikcers]

Thats what scared the hell out of me with Joe Biden as president.

Every time he slipped and fell my gut hit the floor because his vice president was a disaster.

 

[acptulsa]

Thats what scared the hell out of me with Joe Biden as president.

 

[Danke]

 

[jmdrake]

Two Helmet Act

Far more people were killed in mass shootings this past weekend than the total number of cats, dogs, pets and geese confirmed killed and eaten by Springfield Haitians. Yes I'm still pissed about that. Let's just be honest and say both sides amplify what they think will get miliage for their agenda. A white vet with PTSD kills "American Sniper" Chris Kyle along with another vet? Tragic but nothing to see here. An Afghan vet who got recruited by the CIA to be part of a death squad at the tender age of 15 and years later kills one national guardmen and wounds another? We must deport all Afghanis!

 

[Voluntarist]

You didn't find this argument convincing when it was about black crime. Changed your mind?

LOL ... Aren't we going to need the "Deaths by Fall" data broken out by race also? (Don't want to compare Apples to Oranges)

 

[Anti Federalist]

LOL ... Aren't we going to need the "Deaths by Fall" data broken out by race also? (Don't want to compare Apples to Oranges)

Already done.
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From 2000 to 2019, age-standardised fall-related mortality rates in the United States increased significantly across all racial and ethnic populations, with the highest rates observed among American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) and White populations.
In 2019, the age-standardised mortality rate was 15.9 deaths per 100,000 for AIAN individuals and 14.8 deaths per 100,000 for White individuals, compared to 8.7 deaths per 100,000 for Latino, 8.1 deaths per 100,000 for Black, and 7.5 deaths per 100,000 for Asian or Pacific Islander populations.
This pattern persisted across age groups, with AIAN individuals showing the highest mortality rates among younger adults (aged 20–64 years), while White individuals had the highest rates among older adults (aged 65 years and older).

Between 1999 and 2020, the age-adjusted mortality rate (AAMR) for falls among adults aged 65 years or older rose from 29.4 to 69.4 deaths per 100,000, with the largest increases observed among White older adults (from 30.8 to 78.4 deaths per 100,000) and American Indian or Alaska Native older adults (from 30.5 to 53.6 deaths per 100,000).
In the 85-and-up age group, the fall-related death rate for White Americans was two to three times higher than for any other racial or ethnic group, while older Black individuals had the lowest fall-related death rate.
Despite the overall increase in fall-related deaths, the reasons for the higher mortality rates among White seniors compared to other groups remain unexplained.

At the county level, spatial variation in fall-related mortality was evident, with high rates among White populations in clusters of counties across states such as Florida, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and elevated rates among AIAN populations in most counties with available data, particularly in younger adults.
These disparities highlight the need for targeted fall prevention interventions tailored to specific populations and geographic areas.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Falls that result in a broken hip for the elderly are generally life threatening.

Here's why Whites suffer from fatal falls more often:
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Black individuals generally have higher bone mineral density (BMD) compared to white individuals across various age groups and skeletal sites, a difference that persists even after adjusting for body size, lifestyle, and biochemical factors. This disparity is observed in both men and women, with black men and women showing significantly greater BMD at the whole body, total hip, femoral neck, and other sites compared to their white counterparts.

 

[Occam's Banana]

These disparities highlight the need for targeted fall prevention interventions tailored to specific populations and geographic areas.

 

[acptulsa]

American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN)

Who in their right mind would give an ethnic group that clearly isn't Asian an acronym one letter off from Asian?

The Department of Obfuscation and Confusion? This is why we have to pay all these taxes?

 

[jmdrake]

Even Charlie Kirk knew this statistic was BS. His last words, when asked about the number of trans shooters, was "Did you remove drug and gang related shootings?" And that's the way the far right plays with the numbers. They change the dataset and move goal posts around until they get a statistic, no matter how warped, that fits their narrative. The Charlie Kirk narrative at the moment was "trans people dangerous." Yours is "black people dangerous." But when it comes to school mass shootings which group is the most dangerous? I did a statistical analysis on the K-12 shooting data from the Washington Post using the R programming language with assistance from ChatGPT. Here are the results:

What the table shows (plain English)

You restricted the analysis to White (“w”) and Black (“b”) shooters and compared whether incidents involved:

3 or fewer victims, or

4 or more victims.

Raw counts
≤3 victims ≥4 victims Total
Black 63 2 65
White 59 16 75


So:

Most incidents for both groups involved ≤3 victims.

High-victim incidents (≥4) are rare overall, but much more concentrated among White shooters in this dataset.

Row percentages (within race) — most important for interpretation

“Given the shooter’s race, how often did the incident involve 4+ victims?”

Black: 3.1% (2 of 65)
White: 21.3% (16 of 75)


Interpretation:
Among incidents involving Black shooters, about 3% involved 4 or more victims.
Among incidents involving White shooters, about 21% involved 4 or more victims.

That is a substantial difference in severity distribution, not merely frequency.

Column percentages (within victim severity)

“Given a 4+ victim incident, what is the racial distribution?”

≥4 victims:
White 88.9%
Black 11.1%


Interpretation:
In this dataset, nearly 9 out of 10 school-related shooting incidents with 4 or more victims involved White shooters, despite White and Black shooters appearing in similar numbers overall (75 vs 65).

Statistical significance (association test)
Chi-square test
χ²(1) = 8.79, p = 0.003


This is well below 0.05

Rejects the null hypothesis of independence

Indicates a statistically significant association between race (White vs Black) and victim severity category

Fisher’s Exact Test (more conservative)
p = 0.0017
Odds Ratio ≈ 8.44
95% CI: [1.86, 78.72]


Interpretation:

Results remain significant even under the most conservative exact test.

The odds of a 4+ victim incident are estimated to be ~8 times higher for White shooters than Black shooters in this dataset.

The wide confidence interval reflects the rarity of high-victim events, not instability of direction.

Effect size (what this really means)

Although you didn’t compute it yet, the implied effect size is large for a 2×2 table.

If you compute Cramér’s V:

sqrt(chi$statistic / sum(tab))


You’ll get a value in the moderate-to-large range, which is notable given how conservative your filtering was.

What this does not say (important caveats)

You should be explicit about these points:

This is not a rate per population

It does not measure likelihood per capita.

This is not causation

The test shows association, not motive or explanation.

This is school-incident data, not “mass shootings”

WaPo includes many non-mass incidents.

Unknown race dominates the full dataset

You properly excluded it rather than misclassifying.

A defensible summary paragraph (you can reuse this)

In a restricted analysis of Washington Post school shooting incidents involving White and Black shooters, incidents involving four or more victims were significantly more likely to involve White shooters. While the majority of incidents for both groups involved three or fewer victims, high-victim incidents accounted for approximately 21% of White-shooter incidents compared to approximately 3% of Black-shooter incidents. A chi-square test of independence indicated a statistically significant association between shooter race and victim severity (χ²(1) = 8.79, p = 0.003), which was confirmed using Fisher’s Exact Test (p = 0.0017). These results indicate a difference in severity distribution, not incident frequency, within the dataset.