Posted on 02/24/2020 9:15:59 AM PST by rktman
Democrat presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg claimed on Sunday that “100 Americans” are “killed by guns” every day.
Bloomberg made the claim in a tweet, writing, “100 Americans were killed by guns yesterday. And the day before that. And the day before that.”
Bloomberg’s claim swells gun violence deaths by 66 percent by lumping together suicides and homicides, then reporting in a way that leads readers to think it is all gun violence. Although inaccurate, Bloomberg’s claim is in line with what numerous Democrats running for president have said, including Hillary Clinton in 2016.
On April 11, 2016, Breitbart News reported that Clinton swelled gun violence deaths by 66 percent by reporting them in a manner similar to Bloomberg.
Former Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris framed gun violence almost exactly as Bloomberg did:
The claim of 100 deaths “by guns” every day translates into 36,500 Americans “killed by guns” each year. Presenting gun deaths in this way allows suicides and homicides to be lumped together, then all of it reported under the heading of gun violence. In reality, roughly 66 percent of firearm-related deaths are suicides, and a large chunk of the remaining 33 percent–actual homicides–is occurring in Democrat-controlled cities.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
or in car accidents...
“Democrat presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg claimed on Sunday that “100 Americans” are “killed by guns” every day.”
That’s a busy-weekend in Chicago or B-more.
Would that be the good guy or the bad guy?
1,515 Americans died in 2018, by knife or cutting instrument. I don’t see anyone worried by that number.
or in car accidents...
“...“100 Americans” are “killed by guns” every day....”
And several thousand lives are SAVED every day by armed citizens and other Good Guys with guns.
Fascist Mini-Mike has armed bodyguards, because hey, HIS life is more important, but wants to deny YOU the ability to protect yourself.
Newsflash Mike: My life is more important to ME than YOUR life. And I will exercise my Right to keep and carry whenever, wherever, and however I choose.
It’s NOT negotiable.
2,300 Americans die from heart disease daily so let’s outlaw butter
Vehicle Deaths in the US
2018 36,560
100 per day...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in_U.S._by_year
Maybe he is counting thugs from Southside Chicago + the illegal alien gangbangers, etc.
A sugar bloated guy? Of course these “know it alls” are “TFS” to realize that if someone can only buy an 8 oz at a time they might buy 2 of them. Just like they’re “TFS” to understand that the opposite of the alleged glowbull warming is freezing your butt off. SMDH at how stoopid they are. And plenty of buyers for the snake oil.
never taken into account those saved by guns. 6849 times a day that is reported a gun used to protect life and limb. How many times that isn’t reported is likely much higher
About 170 Americans die from drug overdoses/ day. Don’t see them wanting our southerner border controlled.
Geez! Let's not give them any ideas!
Or killed by drunk driving illegal aliens.
Killed by guns....I thought they were killed by criminals.
250,000 die each year from medical errors, according to at least one study. We don’t hear much about that number, either, even though it is the third-leading cause of death in America after cancer and heart disease.
too bad it doesn’t include ......?
Funny.
I have had guns for years and they haven’t killed anyone.
Maybe they are undermotivated lazy guns?
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