Mac McCorkle: Fact check: Are NC kids more likely to die from guns than those across the US, as Cooper claimed?

THE CLAIM: Cooper said children in North Carolina “were 51 percent more likely to die from gun violence than children in the U.S. as a whole,” and that “death by gunfire has surpassed car accidents as the No. For the first claim, the report found a firearm-related death rate of 5.3 for every 100,000 people under 18 in North Carolina that year. The governor said he supports responsible gun ownership under the Second Amendment, said he cannot accept those child deaths and urged lawmakers at the General Assembly to “move forward to fight gun violence, not backward.”