Mike Bloomberg: Having a Gun in Your Home Puts You at Risk
Democrat presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg suggested average Americans are placed at higher risk of death or injury by having a gun in their home, during a CNN town hall on Wednesday.
Bloomberg said, “You don’t want to have guns. If you have a gun in your house you’re something like 22 times as likely to get killed with a gun.”
He added, “There’s domestic violence, there’s children playing, there’s accidents.”
Bloomberg did not provide any substantiation of his claim that owning a gun makes someone “22 times as likely to...