Amid the debate on stricter gun control in the US following the Uvalnde, Texas shooting, misinformation about guns has spread online.
A misleading post has been widely shared on social media stating that Israel has never seen a mass shooting because teenagers can carry weapons to school. Euronews has fact-checked this false claim.
The US House of Representatives has approved a new wide-ranging bill aimed at gun control, after recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas. But opposition in the Senate means it is highly unlikely to come into law. And amid the debate, misinformation about gun control has spread online.
This includes banning the sale of semiautomatic weapons to people under 21 and banning large-capacity magazines after a gunman killed nineteen students and two teachers were killed in a shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, there have been 2,052 school shooting incidents in the United States since 1970.
But these new measures are unlikely to become law because they need to be approved by the US Senate, where there is strong Republican opposition.
Amid this emotional debate, misleading claims have been spread about strict gun control, both in the US and around the world.
A recent post claimed that there are no mass shootings in Israel because teenagers are allowed to carry guns to school.
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