Ever since Joe Biden introduced the Gun Free School Zones Act as part of the Crime Control Act in 1990,[2]<\/a> this useless gun control has yet to deter a single mass public murderer at a school. Yet immediately following a mass murder at a Christian Elementary School in Tennessee, President Biden began a news conference with a stand-up comedy routine about ice cream:<\/p>\n My name is Joe Biden. I\u2019m Dr. Jill Biden\u2019s husband. And I eat Jenny\u2019s Ice Cream (chocolate chip)<\/em>. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream. By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs. You think I\u2019m kidding? I\u2019m not. [3]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Anti-gunners like Joe Biden refuse <\/em>to admit that their gun control policies are at fault when a mass murderer attacks a gun-free school.<\/u><\/strong> Not only does the anti-gun crowd avoid responsibility for putting children at risk, but they also routinely double down with the lie that guns are the leading cause of the death of children. In fact, the Mayor of Nashville was quick to state this fallacy at a press conference following the shooting.[4]<\/a> This fact sheet will thoroughly debunk that phony statistic.<\/p>\n Anti-Gun \u201cStatistic\u201d And Corresponding \u201cStudies\u201d Include 18-19-Year-Old Adults <\/em>As If They Were Children<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n When anti-gunners raise this phony statistic, they usually say something like guns are the leading cause of death for \u201cchildren\u201d like Representative Adriano Espaillat[5]<\/a> or the New York Times.[6]<\/a> If they are aware of the flaw in the data, then they might add in a sneaky disclaimer and say that guns are the leading cause of death for \u201cchildren and teens,\u201d like Representative Nancy Pelosi[7]<\/a> or Everytown for Gun Safety.[8]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ultimate flaw of this statistic is that everyone is using the same misleading data set, which counts 18- and 19-year-old adults <\/em>as children<\/em>.<\/u><\/strong> One such study, which appears at the top of Google search results, is called \u201cCurrent Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States,\u201d and yet also uses this same deceitful data set of legal adults.[9]<\/a><\/p>\n Less than a month after anti-gun researchers published this biased study, the Biden Administration began promoting it on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) website[10]<\/a>\u2014a clear violation of the Dickey Amendment prohibiting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and NIH from \u201cpromoting or advocating gun control.\u201d[11]<\/a> NIH misleadingly titled this article the \u201cLeading Cause of Childhood Death.\u201d<\/p>\n What Does CDC Data Show Is the Leading Cause of Death of Children\u2014Excluding Legal Adults? <\/strong><\/p>\n Excluding legal adults from the data set and including all minors\u2014those under age 18\u2014tells a strikingly different story. According to CDC\u2019s \u201cUnderlying Cause of Death\u201d sorted by \u201cInjury Mechanism & All Other Leading Causes\u201d the top three causes of death are:<\/p>\n If teenagers are excluded and only children up to 12 years old are included in the data set, then suffocation, motor vehicle accidents, and drowning also cause more childhood death than firearms.[13]<\/a><\/p>\n President Biden\u2019s Gun-Free School Zones Act<\/em> hasn\u2019t worked for three decades. In fact, the killer intentionally attacked Covenant School instead of a better defended school.[14]<\/a><\/u><\/strong>\u00a0Let\u2019s \u201cjust do something\u201d new and effective. During school hours, there has never been a shooting at a school where teachers were armed\u2014let alone a mass public murder.<\/u><\/strong>[15]<\/strong><\/a> Instead of blaming the tool\u2014a firearm\u2014society should blame the murderers and empower law-abiding citizens like teachers and parents to defend children in the classroom.[16]<\/a><\/p>\n [1]<\/a> Swalwell. \u201cAt least 3 children are dead in another school shooting. Yet the GOP-led Judiciary Committee is passing a resolution tomorrow to make it easier for mass shooters to obtain pistol stabilizing braces. They must cancel this hearing now.<\/a>\u201d. Twitter<\/em>. March 27th<\/sup>, 2023.<\/p>\n [2]<\/a> Public Law 103-322<\/a>. 108 Stat. 2125.<\/p>\n [3]<\/a> Biden, Joseph. \u201dPresident Biden Hosts the SBA Women\u2019s Business Summit<\/a>\u201d The White House YouTube<\/em>. March 27th, 2023.<\/p>\n [4]<\/a> Cooper. \u201cThe leading cause of kids get death now [sic] is guns and gunfire.\u201d March 27th<\/sup>, 2023.<\/p>\n [5]<\/a> Espaillat. \u201cGun violence is now the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. So much for so called \u2018pro life\u2019 Republicans.<\/a>\u201d. Twitter<\/em>. February 17th<\/sup>, 2023.<\/p>\n [6]<\/a> Gebeloff, Ivory, Marsh, McCann, and Sun. \u201cChildhood\u2019s Greatest Danger: The Data on Kids and Gun Violence<\/a>\u201d. New York Times Magazine<\/em>. December 14th<\/sup>, 2022.<\/p>\n [7]<\/a> Pelosi<\/em>. \u201cGun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens in America \u2014 known as \u2018Generation Lockdown.\u2019 If we want to protect our children in school, we should be banning assault weapons not books. -NP #EndGunViolence<\/a>\u201d. Twitter<\/em>. March 24th<\/sup>, 2023.<\/p>\n [8]<\/a> \u201cFirearms are the leading cause of death for American children and teens.<\/a>\u201d. Everytown for Gun Safety.<\/em> Last updated: 2.13.2023.<\/p>\n [9]<\/a> Goldstick, Cunningham, and Carter. \u201cCurrent Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States\u201d. New<\/em><\/p>\n [10]<\/a> \u201cPreventing Gun Violence, the Leading Cause of Childhood Death<\/a>\u201d. National Institutes of Health<\/em>. Last Reviewed July 5th<\/sup>, 2022.<\/p>\n [11]<\/a> Public Law 117-328<\/a>. Section 210.<\/p>\n [12]<\/a> \u201cAbout Underlying Cause of Death, 2018-2021, Single Race<\/a>\u201d. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <\/em>Ages <1 to 17.<\/p>\n [13]<\/a> \u201cAbout Underlying Cause of Death, 2018-2021, Single Race<\/a>\u201d. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <\/em>Ages <1 to 12.<\/p>\n [14]<\/a> Nashville Police Chief John Drake. \u201cThere was another location that was mentioned, but because of a threat assessment by the suspect\u2014too much security\u2014they [sic] decided not to.\u201d. March 27th<\/sup>, 2023.<\/p>\n [15]<\/a> Lott. \u201cSchools that Allow Teachers to Carry Guns are Extremely Safe: Data on the Rate of Shootings and Accidents in Schools that allow Teachers to Carry<\/a>\u201d. Crime Prevention Research Center. <\/em>April 17th<\/sup>, 2019. Note: Dr. Lott is not aware of any incident at a public school since that contradicts or changes the findings of this study.<\/p>\n [16]<\/a> Johnston. \u201cOur Children Need Actual Protection\u2014The Real Solution Is To Arm Teachers<\/a>\u201d. Gun Owners of America<\/em>. 2022.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tweet2-1-300x146.png\")
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