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The claim

“Nearly 40,000 lives are cut short every year from gun violence. An average of 47 children and teenagers are killed by guns every single day.”

Original publisher’s rating

Four Pinocchios

Reviewed by Washington Post ↗ ·

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Sources and attribution

    Original review: Washington Post. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms.

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