“The leading cause of death among children is a firearm.”
What PolitiFact found
CDC data shows that for children and adolescents ages 1 to 18, and ages 1 to 19, firearms were the leading cause of death in 2020.
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In short
Charles Schumer (U.S. Senate Majority Leader) made this claim around 25 May 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 June 2022, 10 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Charles Schumer has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?c5016517/senate-leaders-react-deadly-uvalde-elementary-scho…
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