Fact Check: Biden Claims ‘More Childen Are Killed by a Bullet Than Any Other Cause of Death’
uring his Thursday night presser, President Joe Biden claimed that “more children are killed by a bullet than any other cause of death.”
uring his Thursday night presser, President Joe Biden claimed that “more children are killed by a bullet than any other cause of death.”
On Wednesday, the Biden White House posted the demonstrably false claim that “guns are the number one killer of children.”
On Monday evening, former President Barack Obama tweeted his response to the Nashville Christian school shooting by repeating the left’s false claim that guns are the number one killer of children.
Boston Children’s Hospital doctor Eric Fleegler, one of the authors of a study looking at firearm-related deaths in the United States, observed that it took coronavirus just a “couple of years” to kill as many people as died in firearm-related incidents over the past three decades.
Twice as many people died in traffic accidents than were killed in firearm homicides in the United States in 2020.
During his March 2, 2020, North Carolina rally President Trump trolled Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden for suggesting half our country was killed in gun violence.
During a September 25, gun control rally on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swelled “gun violence” deaths by 66 percent.
Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris posted on Twitter that guns are responsible for 100 deaths a day in America and suggests that “gun violence is a national epidemic.”
NBC News reports that 3,143 “children” aged 19 and under died firearm-related deaths in 2017.
Medical malpractice deaths in the U.S. are over 500 times higher than accidental gun deaths.
Shooting fatalities in the heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö are set to exceed 2017’s total, the morbid statistic propelled forward by the recent gang shooting in the area.