Gavin Newsom Again Falsely Claims Guns Are The Number One Killer Of Children In US

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has again repeated the false claim that guns are the number one killer of children.

On Friday Newsom tweeted, “Guns are the #1 killer of kids in America. Not cancer. Not car crashes. Not drugs. GUNS.”

He then went on to criticize the Republican Party claiming GOP lawmakers are not doing anything to stop the killings.

Breitbart reports: On June 2, 2o22, Breitbart News pointed out President Joe Biden’s claim that guns are the number one killer of children was false.

The claim can only be substantiated if one counts 18 and 19-year-olds — individuals who are old enough to vote — as children.

The claim arises from a May 26, 2022, FOX News report on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures showing firearm-related deaths of people aged 0-19 totaled 4,368 in 2020, while motor vehicle deaths for the same age range totaled 4,036.

But Breitbart News did a custom search on the CDC numbers, limiting the category of “children” to those aged 0-17, i.e., those below voting age, and found that the data completely flipped. The number of firearm-related deaths for children aged 0-17 was 2,281 in 2020, while the number of motor vehicle deaths for the same age range was 2,503.

Biden and other leftists, including Newsom, have continued to repeat the false claim many times since June 2022.

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5 Comments

  1. Gavin Newsom, won’t go anywhere without his 4 Bodyguards, armed with a total of 13 guns.

    “GAVIN NEWSOM IS A VACUOUS BRITISH PILGRIMS SOCIETY GROOM PUSHING A SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY COMMONWEALTH (BRITISH) AND DEATH OF PRIVACY”

    • And I remember the “conspiracy theory “very popular in alternative publishing houses in the 1970s of the still unexplained phenomenon of Spontaneous Human Combustion whereby corpses reduced to ash apart from maybe there fingers or hand and feet ,found still sitting in armchairs that weren’t even burned .Some top secret weapons I’d suggest were being tested .

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