Dr. John Lott talked to WIND’s Steve Cortez about mass public shootings, Chicago’s high murder rate, and Illinois’ racist gun control policies.
(Friday, February 14, 2020, from 6:35 to 7:00 PM)
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Dr. John Lott wrote a piece for Townhall that fact-checked some of the claims made during the Democrat presidential debate on Tuesday night in Charleston, South Carolina. The piece starts this way:
…For once, a gun control claim was too much for even the media fact-checkers. During last night’s Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina, former Vice President Joe Biden bizarrely declared: “A hundred and fifty million people have been killed since 2007, when Bernie voted to exempt the gun manufacturers from liability.”
Obviously, half of the country hasn’t disappeared since 2007.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, five people were murdered by an employee at the Molson Coors Beverage Company. Below is a picture of one of their facilities. The murderer was also killed at the scene. Our research showing that 94% of mass public shootings occur in gun-free zones is available here.…
Dr. John Lott talked to Dan Crenshaw on his podcast “We hold these truths.” They discussed the evidence showing More Guns, Less Crime as well as many different types of gun controls.
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This piece draws on research that Dr. John Lott did regarding the substitutability between using the police state and indoctrination to control citizens. The piece at Townhall starts this way:
…With Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) becoming the odds on favorite to win the Democrat nomination, the media rehabilitation efforts have begun.
Dr. John Lott and Brad Smith have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the harm created by campaign finance laws. Since campaign finance laws carry criminal penalties, they are something that interests the Crime Prevention Research Center. The laws create a very uneven playing field, with a very wealthy person such as Michael Bloomberg particularly advantaged.…
CBS’ “FBI” shows has a case where truck drivers with concealed handguns are murdered by someone stealing their truck. The Crime Prevention Research Center has collected hundreds of cases where people have used permitted handguns to protect themselves, and while the outcome that CBS shows is possible, this outcome virtually never happens.…
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This TV show on NBC is hardly unique in showing criminals using machine guns. This segment clearly shows the police officers being outgunned by a criminal with a machine gun. This is from Chicago PD (Season 7, E13) January 22, 2020.
On TV shows, machine guns always seem to be the weapons of choice for bad guys when they get in shootouts with police.…
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Dr. John Lott talked to Michael Dukes on his radio stations across Alaska (KFAR in Fairbanks, KPEN in Kenai/Seward/Anchorage, KGTL in Homer) about the push in Alaska for a Red Flag Law. The interview was also available on Facebook and can be heard here.
(February 21, 2020, from 9:20 to 10:00 AM)
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This new show on CBS starts with lots of politically correct themes. In the second episode, the new female police chief’s daughter is distraught over the fact that her mom has a gun in the home. Even though the gun is locked up, Over the last five years that data is available from the Centers for Disease Control (2013 to 2017), the average yearly number of accidental gun deaths involving children under age 10 was 42.…
