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Dem Rep. Makes WILDLY Inaccurate Claim About Number of Children Killed With So-Called ‘Assault Weapons’

Mar. 21, 2013 4:49pm Jason Howerton

Democrat Charlie Rangel Claims Millions of Children Are Dying From Assault Weapons

FILE – In this June 7, 2012 file photo, Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill. Credit: AP

Attempting to show how huge of a mistake it was to drop the ban on so-called “assault weapons” from the Senate’s gun control bill, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) on MSNBC Thursday claimed “millions of kids” are dying at the hands of these weapons and Congress is failing to act.

Rangel blamed the National Rifle Association, politics and money for the gun ban’s failure.

“I’m ashamed to admit it but its politics and its money, The NRA has taken this position, there is no reason, there is no foundation. There is no hunter that needs automatic military weapons to enjoy the culture of going hunting,” Rangel began. “But you know it’s really basically the absence of the voices of good people. I cannot believe that politicians are afraid of the NRA.”

He went on: “We’re talking about millions of kids dying — being shot down by assault weapons, were talking about handguns easier in the inner cities, to get these guns in the inner cities, than to get computers. This is not just a political issue, it’s a moral issue and so when we condemn the NRA we should not ignore the fact that a lot of people that have taken moral positions have been solid on this big one.”

Watch his comments via MSNBC below:

Rangel’s assertion is so ridiculously false, it’s hard to really put it into perspective. But let’s try.

According to FBI data, just 358 people — of all ages — were killed with “rifles” in 2010. In fact, more people were killed by hands and feet (745), knifes (1,704) and shotguns (373) than with rifles that same year. As Fox Nation points out, the total number of gun homicides in 2011 was 8,583, still exponentially lower than Rangel’s estimation of murders involving so-called “assault weapons” alone.

Using the 2011 total gun-related murder rate, it would take more than 116 years for one million people to be killed by a firearm. Additionally, it would take more than 2,793 years for one million people to be killed with rifles, or what Rangel calls “assault weapons,” according to the 2010 FBI data.

Now, that does not lessen the impact of such a horrific tragedy like the Newtown massacre, however, the United States will never be able to have a meaningful debate about guns as long as such blatant lies are being used to demonize firearms.

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Comments (209)

Atrocities
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:41pm
This just proves that people are stupid and we are all doomed. If we as a society keep electing these old inept fools to office time after time after time, because we are too stupid to know any better or too lazy to give a darn, then we are truly, epically, FUBAR. God won’t help us unless we are at least willing to help ourselves first. FIRE THESE PROGRESSIVES and get an amendment to the Constitution enacting term limits, banning lobbying, and capping congressional / senate pay to no more than what a pencil pushing General makes.

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Fitzzz
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:38pm
One more senile Democrat

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noslave
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:26pm
gee charlie (im a tax cheat but get away couse im blk)rangel speaks and everyboy shold believe him?its like harry reid says so it must be true?anytime a democrat communists lips move its only to spew more lies&propaganda,some azzoles want t show crime scene photos of dead kids?for political effect/sympathey?the right should show films of late term abortions,that dems love,showing kids fully delivered except for the head,which is stabbed in the back and the brains sucked out while the kid thrases like a hooked trout??,a lot more die by this bruteal way,than by guns,maye we can embarrass these arrogant liars?

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tankyjo
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:21pm
charlie? Morals? This is what you get when you cross the streams.

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hades3
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:14pm
Someone should inform Pelosi there is a plug in the swamp drain !

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hades3
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:13pm
Using the words Rangel and morality in the same sentence is a joke in any language!

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kat4568
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:08pm
Chuckles Ringworm is a joke.

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Chuck-e-normus
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 7:01pm
@newtowns-third-law
What is the acceptable number of children killed in back yard swimming pools? The actual number is way more than with AR-15′s. I say fill them all in!

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ejizzle_69
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:55pm
you know what they may take our freedom they may take our lives doing it but evil fools like them are condemned by god every begining has its end and we are on course for our end but its the final judgement that defines your life sooner or later evil will meet judgement

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Fonebone
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:52pm
And here are a two other parts of Rangel’s statement that were blatantly false or misleading:

“There is no hunter that needs automatic military weapons…”

No hunter does use automatic military weapons. Those are already illegal and have been since the 1930s. So-called “assault weapons” are not automatic weapons anyway, they are simply run-of-the-mill semi-automatic weapons which have been labeled with this misleading and pejorative term. Besides, this tired, old “hunter argument” is irrelevant anyway since the Second Amendment isn’t about hunters, it’s about the right of self-protection against tyranny.

“…easier in the inner cities, to get these guns in the inner cities, than to get computers.”

Well, for one thing, the average computer probably costs more than the average gun. Second, I doubt that with Best Buys and other stores everywhere that it’s literally harder to find and obtain a computer than it is to find and obtain a gun, if you discount the difference in price. Finally, many large cities such as Chicago have already severely restricted the sales or public possession of guns so anyone obtaining them must already be doing so illegally. Last I checked, computers were still legal in inner cities (shhh, don’t tell Mayor Bloomberg!) so I’d think they would be easier to obtain on-the-whole than a black market gun. Anyway, how would any new gun laws change activities which are already being carried out in violation of existing laws?

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Dallasmarine
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:45pm
So Charlie lies about the number of kids killed with assault rifles and the numbers on his income taxes. I’m sure they are just an honest mistake. He is not sorry for the lies and tax returns he is just sorry he got caught.

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dajones
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:45pm
why is this criminal still in office?

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nateg317
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:44pm
Of the many things that are wrong with his comments, there are 2 that stick out to me the most:
1) democrats will use any figure to play with peoples emotions no matter how ridiculous it is.
2) the thought that the 2nd amendment was about hunting is extremely ignorant. When the framers of the constitution were drafting the bill of rights they were preserving the right and the power of the people to protect themselves and their families from those who wish to do them harm and from a tyrannical government.

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MACaTAC
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:38pm
Stay off the MSLSD.

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d_romprey
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:31pm
This guy is a real piece of work….how many people has he killed himself. I bet that where he is from and the monies that he has been caught with he is mobbed up in some way or another…..Can anyone disagree with me here….If you do your eyes are closed to the real world. Look at how many people that the Clintons have killed and there are more I bet that we are not aware of. This politics thing is a dirty dirty business .

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thegodfather
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:30pm
STFU tax dodger

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Colklink1957
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:19pm
Ol’ senile Charley, obviously, he confused assault weapon with abortion,

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kmltmpx6
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:15pm
This just goes to show the utter ignorance of the lefty progressives.

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THE EQUALIZER
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:09pm
Another affirmative action idiot. These ******** deserve the backlash heading their way.

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firearm
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:04pm
I listened to it 3 times and I still cannot make any sense of it!

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blackfeather
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:03pm
rangel…yet another turd from the white house sewer pipe.

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:01pm
Why should a Democrat tell the truth when the press says nothing when they lie? A dirty old man handing out candy to children, will get removed off the streets, but a Democrat telling a lie, gets a free pass? These regulations kill people? These proposed regulations would make law abiding citizens like defenseless animals? No, don’t blame the people that create the gun free zones, lets blame law abiding citizens?

Not on our watch? We are going to teach our kids gun safety, and make them proud to grow up and be a good guy with a gun? We are not going to let domestic enemies of the US Constitution raise our children to be afraid of guns?

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cassandra
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:01pm
hey democraps lets talk about how many murdered babies a year by abortion

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jungle J
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:01pm
Just worry about the rats that vote for him.

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on March 21, 2013 at 6:00pm
Charly random passed his “use by date” along time ago. But the overly intelligent voters just keep marking his box because they don’t know anything else to do. Plus, they are probably on his payroll.
I’ll bet his high school math teacher will tell you he couldn’t add 5+5 without coming up with 10,000,000.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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