Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA.) said “there’s no such thing as gun violence” days after six people—three children and three adults— were killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.
“There’s no such thing as gun violence. There’s only human violence. It’s intellectually unsound to state otherwise,” Higgins said during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday.
“The number one cause of death for children in America remains abortion,” Higgins continued.
“CDC numbers, 620,327 legally induced abortions in America in 2020. That same year, tragically, 4,357 children died from firearm accidental discharge, suicide, and homicides,” Higgins added, comparing stats from a medical procedure performed by a license clinician to terminate an ongoing intrauterine pregnancy, to young children using a gun to accidentally kill themselves or someone else or an adult using a gun to massacre young kids.
Guns are in fact the leading cause of death among children and young teens in America since surpassing car accidents in 2020.
According to the CDC, firearms were responsible for 19% of deaths among children ages 1-18 in 2021. That year, 5 out every 100,000 children lost their life to gun violence.
An analysis by KFF found that gun-related deaths are not in the top four causes of mortality among children and teens in no other comparable country.
