Oh there goes Spartacus again. Cory Booker, who was born in 1969, during the height of the Vietnam war claims that more people have died from “gun violence” than foreign wars since he has been alive. Really Cory?
You know, I used to kind of respect Cory Booker, after he saved that dog in a fire in New Jersey. But now he’s just one of the clowns.
There are two immediate problems with Booker’s claim. First, it presumes that every firearm-related death is a death due to “gun violence.” In reality, about 66 percent of annual firearm-related deaths in the U.S. are suicides. Breitbart News has pointed this out again and again through the years.
Secondly, a claim similar to Booker’s has been made before, by Mike Bloomberg. It was false when Bloomberg made it and it is false now.
On July 29, 2017, Breitbart News noted Bloomberg’s claim the number of American gun deaths exceeds the entire history of American military deaths.
Bloomberg was operating on a theory that 31,000 Americans would die each year via “illegal guns.” He said, “There have been more people killed with illegal handguns than soldiers that have died since the Revolutionary War through today in defense of our country.”
Breitbart News pointed out that Bloomberg’s claim may have been based on Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP) numbers, which posited a figure of 836,290 “gun violence” deaths 1989-2014.