Dr. John Lott talked to Monica Perez on her podcast, the Propaganda Report, for an hour about a wide range of gun control issues.
(Friday, October 22, 2021)
Part 1 Part 2…
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%).…
In testimony on Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland walked his earlier statements about potentially charging parents concerned about what their children are learning in schools with domestic terrorism, but he will have the FBI monitor parent behavior.
…The Attorney General insists there was nothing to be worried about because the FBI would simply be monitoring what these parents say or do at school meetings.
Here is a discussion about Alec Baldwin’s recent problems.
…The first rule of gun safety is you don’t point a gun a something unless you intend to shoot it. Even if you believe the gun is unloaded, you don’t point it directly at others.
Alec Baldwin didn’t follow basic gun safety when he accidentally shot his cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42.
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison inmates only broke down the numbers for uses in crime of handguns (11.2%), rifles (0.8%), and shotguns (1.1%).…
media bias on guns, Television show machine gun myth, television show media bias on guns
This case occurred in South Central Nebraska on October 22, 2021.
…A man fired from a south central Nebraska grain complex Thursday returned to the facility and started shooting at his former colleagues killing two, and injuring another according to the Nebraska State Patrol.
The gunman, identified as Max Hoskinson, 61, was shot and killed by another employee of the Agrex facility in Superior, Nebraska.
Concealed Handguns Stopped Mass Public Shooting, Defensive Gun Use
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network discussed the lies about the Fed’s default risk.
(Friday, October 8, 2021, from 8:35 to 8:43 PM)
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Dr. John Lott talked to Mike Ferguson on St. Louis’ giant 100,000-watts KLJY-FM about his book “Gun Control Myths.”
(Friday, October 15, 2021, from 9:36 to 9:48 AM)
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This is NOT the same John Lott who runs the CPRC, but this was too good of a defensive gun use story to pass up.
…. . . “CSPD received numerous 911 calls regarding shots fired at the above location,” cops wrote on Saturday in their police blotter page. They said they found suspect John Lott, 34, shot in the face.
South Bend, IN, April 3, 2021 (South Bend Tribune)
…The April 3 shooting death of David Austin at Donald and Webster streets has been ruled a justifiable homicide by the county prosecutor’s office and no charges will be filed in the case.
According to a news release, the 72-year-old man who apparently was the shooter was approached “in an aggressive manner” by Austin, according to a witness, despite the older man having a handgun.
