You’d Think That Gropin’ Joe Would Know What A Child Is

p[R]esident (when he’s not on vacation) Biden wants gun control; for the children.

President Joe Biden said that for the last two decades guns have killed more children in the U.S. than “than on-duty police officers and active duty military combined.”

Really?

The FDA defines “child” as 2-12 yo.

The Army Times reported 15,851 active duty military deaths… for 2006-2018. Do note that short period, somewhat less than 2000-2020. If we attempt to fill in the periods of 2000-2005 and 2019-2020, using Wikipedia, we get a total of 18,381 mil deaths.

The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund lists 3,746 for 2000-2020. So we’re looking at a total of 22,127 military and LE deaths.

WISQARS says that, for 2000-2020, there were 4,547 firearm-related deaths (all intents) for 2-12yos (that FDA definition of “child”).

We already see that senile Gropin’ Joe is lying through his teeth. Again.

Let’s see what happens when we broaden the definition of child, and check that against WISQARS.

0-12: 5,032
0-13: 6,515
0-14: 9,265
0-15: 14,049
0-16: 21,344
0-17: 31,780

At last we exceed mil/LE deaths. If Xiden had claimed minors’ deaths, he might have a vague point. But he said “children.”

That’s quite an interesting jump in minors deaths when you include teenagers; and a jump of ten thousand when you include 17yos. Would I be out of line if I wondered if they should be looking at a gang problem, instead of guns?

And what would the mil/LE numbers look like if we limited those to people killed “by” (with, damnit) guns?

Biden’s puppeteers are manipulating and twisting data on “children” to inflict rights infringements on everyone, of all ages.

It could be (probably will be) worse. Everytown released a report using the term “youth” which astonishingly includes ten year-olds to…

24yos.

When I was 24, I’d been in the Air Force for five years; I was a Staff Sergeant, an NCOIC, and overseeing multi-million dollar contracts.

To Everytown, that’s the same as a 10yo child.

Whatever it takes to manipulate gullible minds.

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2 thoughts on “You’d Think That Gropin’ Joe Would Know What A Child Is”

If I am to understand your data correctly, it appears that there were some 7,000, 16 year olds, and some 10,000, 17 year olds killed during that period. That is pretty informative.
It is likely at that age when a young male is likely to need a male father figure in his life, be it in the home or if they don’t have that, as a mentor from a teacher, coach, etc.
It seems as if one thing that most of the school shooters have in common is that they came from a fatherless home. That of course doesn’t give them an excuse, because there are thousands of young men who come from a fatherless home that don’t shoot up their schools. But it might be the place to start, at least for the mental health workers to watch, or to focus some of their attention on these young men.
They could watch for any of them they seem that they are loners, or introverts, angry or never finishing their school work, etc. This of course, should start way before they turn 16 or 17, because by then the damage is already done.
I know that is a pipe dream, because the Democrats really are not interested in any of that. All they are trying to do is to ban guns. The actual number of school shootings is not statistically very large when compared to the rest of the shootings in the nation. And it would be a simple thing to harden the schools and stop the majority of them. But they won’t let a crisis go to waste.