“Removing gun-related homicides in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis would drop the U.S. to 189th out of 193 countries in gun violence.”
Social media posts
Instagram post. Claim dated 1 Feb 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Subtracting the cities' gun homicides from 2022 data would decrease the US gun homicide rate to 4.5 per 100,000 people. That wouldn’t reduce the U.S. rate enough to be on the lowest end of a global gun violence ranking.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 1 February 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 February 2024, 26 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Instagram posthttps://www.instagram.com/p/C2zEJs2uMeR/
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