Vice President Kamala Harris said 1 in 5 Americans have lost a family member to gun violence. Her stat came from a March 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation survey that found 19% of U.S. adults have a family member who was killed by a gun, including by suicide.
claims that firearms are the leading cause of death for children in the U.S.; we’ve rated them Mostly True.Harris’ office told PolitiFact she was referring to a Kaiser Family Foundationthat 19% of adults — essentially 1 in 5 — answered"yes" when asked,"Do you have a family member who has ever been killed by a gun, including death by suicide?"
The Kaiser study broadly tracks the findings of the two relatively recent surveys we could find that asked similar questions, though Kaiser’s figures are a bit higher than those in the other polls.of 1,200 U.S. adults sponsored by the pro-gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety in December 2018 found that 15% said that someone they cared for was killed by a gun.
The biggest difference among the survey results may stem from the most important variation in question wording. If you exclude the AP-NORC responses about a"close friend," a category that Kaiser didn’t ask about, the AP-NORC survey found 12% of respondents had experienced gun violence personally or knew a family member who had.
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