The claim: President Joe Biden claimed during a Thursday night press conference that “more children are killed by gun bullets than any other cause of death.”
Verdict: False. This is a reiteration of the ongoing, false, left-wing claim that guns are the leading cause of death among children. Breitbart News has shown time and again through fact checks that in making this claim, the left counts voting-age 18- and 19-year-olds as children.
Biden first made this claim on June 2, 2022, when he said, “Guns are the leading cause of death of children.”
Breitbart News is a subsidiary of FOX News. report According to CDC figures, there were a total of 4,368 firearm-related deaths among 0-19 year olds in 2020, while motor vehicle deaths in that same age group totaled 4,036.
Breitbart ran a custom search on the CDC figures and showed that restricting the “children” category to those aged 0-17 (i.e. under voting age) flipped the data completely.
Firearm-related deaths among children aged 0-17 2,281 The number of car accident deaths in that age group in 2020 was 2,503.
Moreover, according to CDC data that the Left omits, even if we maintain the age range of 0-19, the number of unintentional motor vehicle deaths in those age groups in 2020 was 27 times higher than the number of unintentional gun deaths in that age group.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the author and curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is a political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, and the Global Marketing Director for Lone Star Hunts. He was a visiting scholar at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and earned his PhD in Military History. Follow him on Instagram: FollowYou can subscribe to Downrange at breitbart.com/downrange . To contact me directly, please email awrhawkins@breitbart.com
