Former US President Barack Obama was exposed for falsely claiming that guns are the leading cause of death in children.
The former President tweeted on Monday evening in response to the recent Nashville Christian school shooting.
In the tweet, Obama repeated the left’s false claim that guns are the number one killer of children.
In addition, actor Billy Porter was also exposed for making the same false claim after Breitbart News reported it on March 23.
According to Porter, “the leading cause of death in children are guns” during an appearance on ABC’s The View.
In an exclusive report published by Breitbart News, it was revealed that “Porter’s claim, which is now Obama’s claim as well, became a common one among leftists and non-fact-checking moderates in the summer of 2022 after a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was widely reported in late May that year.”
Following the release of the CDC study, Fox News published a story titled “Guns now the leading cause of death for US children, per CDC.”
According to the report, “CDC figures show firearm-related deaths of people ages 0-19 totaled 4,368 in 2020, while motor vehicle deaths for the same age range totaled 4,036,” Breitbart News wrote.
In response to the CDC, President Joe Biden reacted to the CDC figures by claiming, “Guns are the number one killer of children” during his June 2, 2022, speech.
Amid the ongoing controversy, Breitbart News conducted a fact-checking analysis on the said matter.
“Breitbart News dug into the CDC figures and ascertained that the only way to make the claim work is to count 18 and 19-year-olds as children. But if one does a custom search on the CDC website to adjust the category of children to include only those aged 0-17, only those below voting and military age, then the outcome completely flips,” the media outlet wrote in its analysis.
“One sees that the number of firearm-related deaths for children aged 0-17 was 2,281 in 2020, while the number of motor vehicle deaths for the same ages was 2,503. Another important point to note is that the false parameters — treating 18 and 19-year-olds as children for the benefit of boosting reportable gun death numbers — actually works against the left. That is because CDC numbers for children ages 0-19 show that individuals are 27 times more likely to die in an accidental car death instead of an accidental gun death,” it added.
