Michael Bloomberg's Claim About 'Children' Killed by 'Gun Violence' Is Off by 73%. Such inflammatory exaggeration seems designed to avoid a substantive discussion of the presidential candidate's gun control proposals.

Reason ^ | February 2, 2020 | Jacob Sullum

[karpov]

Michael Bloomberg's Super Bowl ad, which presents the Democratic presidential contender as a brave advocate of public safety who is not afraid to take on "the gun lobby," claims "2,900 children die from gun violence every year" in the United States, which is not true. That number includes young adults as well as minors, and it includes suicides as well as homicides.

Bloomberg's campaign cited Everytown for Gun Safety, a Bloomberg-backed group, as the source of the number used in the ad. "Annually," the organization said in June 2019 fact sheet, "nearly 2,900 children and teens (ages 0 to 19) are shot and killed." The ad changed "children and teens" (including young adults) to "children," presumably because that makes the deaths more shocking, strengthening the emotional case for the gun control policies Bloomberg favors.

According to to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FactCheck.org notes, the average number of firearm-related deaths involving Americans 17 or younger from 2013 through 2017 (the period used by Everytown for Gun Safety) was about 1,500, roughly half the number cited by Bloomberg. Furthermore, nearly two-fifths of those deaths were suicides, meaning the number of minors killed each year by "gun violence," as that term is usually understood, is about 73 percent smaller than the figure cited in Bloomberg's ad.

The case highlighted by the TV spot does not actually fit into any of these categories. The ad features Calandrian Kemp, whose 20-year-old son, George, was shot to death in 2013 at a park in Richmond, a Houston suburb, during a confrontation that a Texas appeals court described as "gang-related." According to the court, "two groups of young men, most of them teenagers, had met that night for a fight."

[Deplorable American1776]

Now, what was he doing at the park during a gang war going on? Was he an innocent bystander, or was he part of the gang. That said, where did the teenagers (who can not LEGALLY buy a gun) get the guns they had? I guess those guns were legally brought at gun stores with a background check on the teens... 😋

[shanover]

Everytown is full of hypocritical fake a-hole activists.

[Jack Hammer]

The real question is this: Does America deserve/want another Lefty liar in the White House after Clinton/Obama?

Haven’t we had enough posturing from Leftist liars?

[Dick Bachert]

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[UNGN]

First Guns killed people, then “Gun Violence” killed people.

When will democrats learns it is PEOPLE killing PEOPLE.

Never?

[ronnie raygun]

While they empty the jails of people that should be behind bars

[octex]

I REALLY like your tag line!

[trebb]

Yep - had to tweet to him asking what laws he passed and how many lives they saved...
He has the charisma of a chunk of cut bait that’s been sitting in the sun...

[mewzilla]

More kids die in car accidents every year.

Does Mini Mike wanna ban cars?

[Chainmail]

I had no idea that you actually lived in France - which would make your view quite well detailed.

I have lived off and on in France too - had a girlfriend there for a couple of years - and while I was still in uniform, tested military equipment in Normandy.

The perspective I saw was that France was focused on hunting rather than individual defense as we are here. The license itself tells you that it's a privilege granted by the government that can be taken away at any point, rather than a human right guaranteed by a Constitution.

I can't help but believe that the massacre at the concert in Paris would have been cut short if only one or two members of the audience would have had concealed carry and the will to fight.

Great hearing from you again!

[GailA]

Memphis, TN mostly black on black, drive by killings, shooting from free ways, no BD party is safe with out a shooting/Killing. Daily. Not safe to go into Unarmed. And our Stupid gov is following in Cuomo's footsteps releasing criminals. Importing in more refugees we went to court to prevent.

[samtheman]

How old are these “children” and how many of them were committing a crime when they got shot?

Some of the children:

[GailA]

No one had the right to take my 16 yr old’s life and my dreams. Calendar said 16, physically/mentally 12. Beat to death with a 2 ft section of fence post. Prep got a 20 yr plea deal M1 to M2. Served 10.5 yrs, 6 parole hearings, that includes the 2 yrs spent in Jail no one was willing to bail out the Sociopath as he’d made threats to kill others.

He now walks TN free. And I CCW.

[joma89]

Lying is standard by leftists like bloomsberg. Never believe a leftist, never support a leftist.

JoMa