claim: "the bulk of the people who are shot with a weapon — other than these drug gangs taking on one another — end up being shot with their own weapon."
author: joe biden
evidence_1: nov 5, 2017 ... (these gun deaths are a big reason america has a much higher overall homicide rate, which includes non-gun deaths, than other developed nations.) ... of civilian-owned firearms in the us was 88.8 guns per 100 people, meaning there was almost one privately owned gun per american and more than one ...
evidence_2: dec 19, 2012 ... "the bulk of the people who are shot with a weapon — other than these drug gangs taking on one another — end up being shot with their own weapon." (half true) vice president joe biden, the chair of president barack obama's new task force on gun violence, cites a true statistic but leaves out the ...
evidence_3: oct 20, 2017 ... the war on drugs has created more casualties than every mass shooting in the us combined. ... and while every pundit seems to have their own surefire way of combatting gun violence, they all gloss over the elephant in the room. keep up with this story and more by subscribing now. which is, although ...
evidence_4: though guns are not the most common method by which people attempt suicide, they are the most lethal. ... about one in three american households contains a gun. ... catherine barber, director of hicrc's means matter campaign, a suicide prevention effort that focuses on the ways people attempt to take their own lives.
evidence_5: jan 25, 2015 ... we know, in the world that surrounds us, there are terrorists and home invaders and drug cartels and car-jackers and knock-out gamers and rapers, haters, campus killers, airport ... that is, in the absence of guns, would-be criminals are not switching to knives or some other weapons to carry out homicide.