Claim: A Shanghai Daily journalist claimed that 43,000 Americans were killed by guns last year.
Fact-check: Misleading: Over 40,000 gun deaths in US last year include suicides, not just homicides | annie lab
Verdict: misleading. although records show tens of thousands of lives were taken by firearms in the u.s. in 2023, the figure includes firearm suicides, which consistently make up the highest number of gun deaths every year.
Organisation: annie lab
Author: Jay Ganglani
Date published: 2024-06-14T03:42:18