Democrat: gun violence is the number one killer of children UNDER 21?

How Democrats manipulate statistics to blame everyone but themselves

“Gun violence is the number one killer of children under 21 in our country. You’re either willing to do something about it, or you aren’t.”

That’s from Elissa Slotkin — a Democrat, obviously — during her U.S. Senate debate this week with Republican Mike Rogers.

Let’s ignore the exhausting “you don’t care about the children unless you agree with me on throwing the Second Amendment into the shredder” line, and focus on the pretty spectacular phrase “children under 21.”

Children under 21?! Why on earth is she talking about children under 21? In other words, all children, because you’re an adult (at least legally) when you’re 18-years-old.

(By the way, abortion is the biggest killer of children under 21…)

The only reason Slotkin expands her definition of child to include 18, 19, and 20-year old adults is to manipulate statistical reality like Play-Doh and reach the conclusion she wants: that “gun violence is the number one killer of children.”

Which it simply is not: disease is, by far, the number one killer of children.

But digging deeper, take a look at this graph shared by the National Association for Gun Rights that also includes 18 and 19-year-olds:

Notice how the number of firearm homicides explodes for 18 and 19-year-olds.

Here’s what the American Academy of Pediatrics found in Trends and Disparities in Firearm Deaths Among Children…that also included 18 and 19-year olds:

In 2021, firearms continued to be the leading cause of death among US children. From 2018 to 2021, there was a 41.6% increase in the firearm death rate. In 2021, among children who died by firearms, 84.8% were male, 49.9% were Black, 82.6% were aged 15 to 19 years, and 64.3% died by homicide. Black children accounted for 67.3% of firearm homicides, with a death rate increase of 1.8 from 2020 to 2021. White children accounted for 78.4% of firearm suicides. From 2020 to 2021, the suicide rate increased among Black and white children, yet decreased among American Indian or Alaskan Native children. Geographically, there were worsening clusters of firearm death rates in Southern states and increasing rates in Midwestern states from 2018 to 2021. Across the United States, higher poverty levels correlated with higher firearm death rates.

Why bother talking about contributing factors, like poverty, crime and — yes — race, when you can blindly expand the issue to erase any inconvenient data that might come back and bite a Democrat in the ass?