“We’ve now had more mass shootings in 2024 than there have been days in the year,”
Joe Biden
president. Claim dated 14 Feb 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisNeeds more context
What PolitiFact found
There is no legal definition of “mass shooting.” Organizations that collect this data use their own definitions which results in different numbers of mass shootings annually.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 14 February 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 February 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “Needs more context”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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