“Most of these killers tend to be 18, 19 years old.”
What PolitiFact found
Murphy is accurate, and even a little understated, in the context of school shootings alone, according to a Washington Post database of school shootings since 1999.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Chris Murphy (U.S. Senator, D-Conn.) made this claim around 24 May 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 May 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Chris Murphy has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttps://transcripts.cnn.com/show/se/date/2022-05-24/segment/01
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