What The Trace Leaves Out On Coverage Of Kids Being Shot

By Tom Knighton

One thing I do like about The Trace is that unlike some media organizations out there, it wears its biases on its sleeves. It doesn’t pretend to be an unbiased news outlet in the hopes that you’ll mistake its opinions as facts. These days, too many outlets do just that, and it’s annoying. The Trace at least admits in its mission statement that its an anti-gun media organization, so you at least know where it’s coming from.

However, that doesn’t absolve it of being stupid.

For example, earlier today, The Trace dropped a story about how kids are being killed in Flint, Michigan. What’s telling, however, is what it’s not saying.

Zaniyah is the fourth and youngest Flint kid to have been killed by a gun this year, and records show that the city has a particularly high rate of child firearm death. The Trace examined data from the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System and calculated that Flint, with a population of roughly 100,000, lost an average of 3.5 children per 100,000 residents to gun violence each year from 2010-2016.

That’s double the child firearm homicide rate in Chicago, and nearly twice Detroit’s, according to data obtained through public records requests.

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Source:: Bearing Arms