A copy of the interview and the audio is also available here. The interview covered the mistakes in the Bloomberg report on school shootings and the concealed handgun decision in the 9th Circuit.
The audio of the interview with John Lott is available here (8:07 to 8:14 EST AM, Wednesday, February 19, 2014).
• Write up on the court’s decision is available here.
The interview during the first hour of the Jim Bohannon Radio Show is
available here (10:05 to 11:00 PM EST, Tuesday, February 18, 2014).
For the original pieces that generated the discussion see here:
• Errors with Bloomberg on school gun shooting stats
• Errors with ABC News on the risks of having guns in the home
gun free zones, media appearance, Problems with Public Health Research
There has been some attention given yesterday and today about a study coming out from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University:
…Repeal of Missouri’s background check law associated with increase in state’s murders
Missouri’s 2007 repeal of its permit-to-purchase (PTP) handgun law, which required all handgun purchasers to obtain a license verifying that they have passed a background check, contributed to a sixteen percent increase in Missouri’s murder rate, according to a new study from researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research.
background checks, gun show regulations, Problems with Public Health Research
John Lott’s newest piece at Fox News starts this way:
…Are schools and colleges dangerous places, with lots of gun violence?
Some groups paint a picture of these places being particularly unsafe. Supposedly both murders and firearm suicides are very common at educational institutions. Last Wednesday, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s two groups, Moms Demand Gun Sense in America and Mayors Against Illegal Guns, jointly released a report that received massive uncritical news coverage.
CPRC original research, mass public shootings, Michael Bloomberg, op-ed, School Shootings
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Bloomberg’s groups claim that shootings at schools are ignored and don’t get media attention. Well, of 44 claimed cases the groups point to since Newtown, 24 of them were covered by USA Today. Five others were covered in at least New York Daily News (when the events were even no where near New York) or on the CBS Evening News.…
CPRC original research, mass public shootings, Michael Bloomberg
UPDATED INFORMATION is available here..
UPDATE: Problems with the Bloomberg claims on school shootings is available here.
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Using data from the National School Safety Center, Slate, and Michael Bloomberg shows a significant drop in firearms deaths over the last 20 years.…
CPRC was on George Noory’s radio show last night for the first two hours of the show (3.25 million weekly listeners). Among the topics: the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals case striking down California’s concealed handgun law, the big push to scare Americans into not owning guns, the head of Interpol’s views on gun-free zones, 3D printers, and polls on gun-free zones.…
3D printers, concealed carry, gun free zones, media appearance, Problems with Public Health Research
While most of the discussion here was on Obamacare, the last 1:52 of the interview was on the Crime Prevention Research Center. The audio of the interview is available here (1:17 to 1:28 EST PM, 02/13/2014).
…John Lott’s newest piece at Fox News starts this way:
…California may soon join 42 other states in letting people carry concealed handguns once they meet certain objective criteria.
Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state couldn’t ban both concealed and open carry guns. The court also struck down the so-called “good cause” requirement for getting a permit, saying that concern for one’s personal safety should be sufficient justification.
