Claim: Rep. Charlie Rangel falsely claimed there are "millions of kids dying, being shot down by assault weapons." In fact, fewer than 100,000 persons younger than 20 years old died of gun violence, including suicide, over a 30-year period through 2010, government data show. About two-thirds of those deaths — or nearly 65,000 — were homicides. That's for all guns, not just assault weapons. We don't know how many of them were killed by assault weapons,
Fact-check: Rangel's Assault Weapons Whopper - FactCheck.org
Verdict: rep. charlie rangel falsely claimed there are "millions of kids dying, being shot down by assault weapons." in fact, fewer than 100,000 persons younger than 20 years old died of gun violence, including suicide, over a 30-year period through 2010, government data show. about two-thirds of those deaths — or nearly 65,000 — were homicides. that's for all guns, not just assault weapons. we don't know how many of them were killed by assault weapons,
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Eugene Kiely
Date published: 2013-03-22T22:43:21