Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 24, 2018 a Waco campaign stop

Says "PTA meetings are now being conducted to help parents tell their kids" that if a guy with an AR-15 walks into their classroom, "you are supposed to create as much chaos as you possibly can. They want you to scream and yell and dance around and throw books and just keep moving."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 15, 2018

Dennis Kucinich
stated on February 27, 2018 a speech

Says Richard Cordray directed an Ohio commission to "permit an armed group to have a rally on the statehouse grounds, even taking the extraordinary step of assuming personal responsibility for waiving an insurance requirement in the event of an incident."

By Amy Sherman • March 13, 2018

Marco Rubio
stated on February 22, 2018 a tweet

"Under N.Y. State ‘Assault Weapon’ ban 1 simple cosmetic change pictured here is difference between legal & banned"

By Dan Clark • February 28, 2018

Nancy Rotering
stated on February 11, 2018 an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times

"It’s now constitutional to ban [assault weapons] in Illinois. Yet, the Illinois General Assembly has failed to allow other cities to have that opportunity."

By Brett Chase • February 27, 2018

Brian Kavanagh
stated on January 17, 2018 a press conference

"New York has the third lowest rate of gun-caused death in America."

By Dan Clark • February 1, 2018

Chris Abele
stated on October 2, 2017 a tweet

90 percent of Americans "support universal background checks" for gun purchases.

October 3, 2017

Richard Durbin
stated on February 15, 2017 an interview with Willie Geist

"You can almost pinpoint half of the gun violence deaths to two or three specific sections in the city. They are just areas of devastation, economically and otherwise."

By Marc Filippino • February 23, 2017

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 31, 2016 a rally in Cincinnati

Says of Donald Trump, "He even said, on his very first day in office, he would require every school in America to let people carry guns into our classrooms."

By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2016

Rob Portman
stated on October 20, 2016 the Ohio Senate debate

Says Ted Strickland "in this campaign bragged about his A-plus rating with the NRA. ... He has said he has a mixed and spotty record on this issue and that he can be criticized for it. Those are his words, not mine. So I don’t know where he is on this issue."

By Nadia Pflaum • October 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate

"In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since Jan. 1. Thousands of shootings."

By Miriam Valverde • September 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate at Hofstra University

"The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together."

By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2016 x

Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."

By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • September 1, 2016

Lisa Moore
stated on August 7, 2016 an interview for NPR's "All Things Considered"

Says there are "concrete examples" of University of Texas job applicants or prospective applicants and students as well as invited speakers changing their minds because of handguns being allowed in campus buildings and classrooms.

By Eleanor Dearman, W. Gardner Selby • August 26, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech

"We fixed a loophole in the (gun) background record check system so that we could make our commonwealth safer."

By Sean Gorman • July 29, 2016

Chris Murphy
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia

"Ninety percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales."

By Lauren Carroll • July 28, 2016

Safety For All Initiative
stated on July 6, 2016 an email.

"There are at least twice as many licensed firearm dealers in California as there are McDonald’s."

By Chris Nichols • July 19, 2016

Jim Waldman
stated on July 8, 2016 a campaign email

Says Gary Farmer’s claim that he "received an 'A' from the NRA" is "an absolute lie."

By Allison Graves • July 15, 2016

Maggie Hassan
stated on June 21, 2016 a campaign statement

Says Kelly Ayotte "voted again yesterday against a proposal to expand background checks -- (buyers) can continue to simply go online or to gun shows to purchase guns without background checks."

By Allie Morris • June 21, 2016

Mira Signer
stated on April 28, 2016 a conference.

States with "the highest gun ownership rates also have the highest suicide rates."

By Warren Fiske • April 11, 2016

Joe Pitts
stated on March 10, 2016 a Medium post

"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 120 Americans on average die from a drug overdose every day. Overall, drug overdose deaths now outnumber deaths from firearms."

By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2016

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