-By Warner Todd Huston
New York’s billionaire Mayor Michael “Nanny” Bloomberg is well known as a hater of our Second Amendment rights, of course, but he has been caught again lying about the true facts in order to push his ideology on the country. This time he was caught lying about how many children are shot in America.
Recently Bloomberg made the wild claim that seven children are murdered every day with guns but the facts actually state that 1.2 kids are killed in gun-related incidents per day in America.
-FBI Crime stats for 2011 show 12,664 total murders in America for that year, 67 percent of which involved a firearm. So there were 639 deaths of children and 67% of those were by guns. That would mean that 428 were killed with guns. That’s 1.2 deaths a day. Others could have been starved to death, beaten, shaken, or stabbed.
Of course, one of the ways that Bloomberg could have come up with this outlandish number is to add deaths of young people all the way to young adulthood. But then that would include gang bangers, drug dealers, murderers, and other criminals.
So, how did Bloomberg come up with 7 murders a day with guns? Well, you could add in all children up to the age of 17. But, even when you do that, you come up with 1690 additional deaths, but you must remember, at this age, it would include drug dealers and gang members. Even then it only adds 4.575 a dad then, remember that only 67% of those murders are with guns, or 1132 gun deaths or 3.1 a day. That means using the most extreme statistics, OK. A total of 1560 children ages 1 through 17 or 4.27 a day. Far less than Bloomberg’s 7.
But, let’s really get to the numb of this. In 2012 440 school age children were shot in Chicago, one of the cities with the strictest guns laws in the nation. But even on Chicago that is far less than seven kids a day, isn’t it?
So, what else is this guy lying about?
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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