Fact check: Is gun violence 23 times higher in the U.S. than the EU?
The day after six people died in a mass shooting at a Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart, Del. Cliff Hayes Jr., D-Chesapeake, said: "When you compare us here in this country to the European Union, we're something like 23 times more likely for these incidents to occur here." PolitiFact checks his claim.
Warren Fiske, PolitiFact reporter