Exposing Lies on Child Gun Death Statistics

The following excerpted quotes are from an Op-Ed article by Dr. John R. Lott Jr., the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. He served as the senior advisor for research and statistics in the Office of Justice Programs and the Office of Legal Policy in the US Department of Justice during 2020-21.

“Gun control advocates often claim that guns are the leading cause of death among children — but that is false….Over the last couple of years, the media has continually pushed the assertion regarding children being at risk….What defines a child? For those under 18, vehicle deaths consistently outnumber firearm deaths.

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“When we exclude…justified killings [of those who posed deadly threats] and use the FBI’s count of murders instead, the firearm total drops by more than four hundred….

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“About 72 percent of firearm homicides involving minors occur among 15-, 16-, and 17-year-olds. Sixteen- and 17-year-olds alone make up about 57 percent of those cases. These killings overwhelmingly stem from gang activity, and even a total gun ban would do little to stop gangs from obtaining weapons to protect their highly valuable drug supplies.

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“So even if we classify 17-year-old gang members as “children,” the gun control claim doesn’t hold up. In 2019 and 2020, more minors died from suffocation than from firearms….If we define children as those under 15, motor vehicle deaths far exceed firearm deaths….

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“The assumption behind these false claims about firearms is that if you could only ban guns, you could save all these lives. Yet, things don’t work that way. Banning guns…won’t reduce firearm murders. Indeed, a ban on guns, even a handgun ban like the ones we’ve seen in Washington and Chicago, inevitably makes things much worse. After every gun ban, murder rates have gone up….

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Even island nations have fared no better. After the United Kingdom banned handguns in January 1997, its homicide rate rose by 50 percent over the following eight years….Even more dramatic post-ban surges occurred in Jamaica and Ireland, with six or sevenfold increases in homicide rates….

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“Guns aren’t the leading cause of death among children, even when adolescents are included….”

Read this article in full here.  Read it also at The Federalist.

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