by AWR HAWKINS
On Monday, President Joe Biden reiterated his false claim that guns are the “leading killer of children.”
Biden tweeted:
Guns are the leading killer of children in America, and the numbers are rising.
What has our nation come to when children cannot attend a birthday party without fear? When parents have to worry every time their kids walk out the door to school, the movie theater, or to the park?
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 17, 2023
Biden has made the claim regarding guns and children numerous times. He began doing so in the summer of 2022, which is when Breitbart News fact checked his claim and found it to be false.
The only way Biden’s claim proves valid is when non-children–voting aged people who are 18 and 19–are counted as children, for the sake of expanding the pool of possible shooting victims.
But Breitbart News pointed out that when actual children are counted–people aged 0-17–Biden’s claim falls apart.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data shows that the number of firearm related deaths for children 0-17 was 2,281 in 2020, while the number of motor vehicle deaths for the same ages was 2,503.
Moreover, Breitbart News noted that Biden does not mention that even in the expanded age range of 0-19, CDC numbers show unintentional motor vehicle deaths were 27 times higher than unintentional firearm-related deaths.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1648413564938625027
The guy that shot the black kid on his porch made a tragic mistake, but it had nothing to do with race. In fact, blame out of control and rampant crime and the left’s constant stoking of racial strive and animosity for the guy being fearful of a big black guy at his door. Idiot Biden should call the old man and apologize for causing him such fear.
Idiot Biden is not going to speak unless he lies. That seems to be a hard and fast rule of his. As they are counting how many “children” are killed by corrupt Soros DA’s?