John Lott's piece at Fox News started this way: Gun control advocates not only push new fees and taxes on guns to reduce ownership, but they also employ another tactic: scaring people into not owning guns. Last week, on January 31, ABC News saturated its news programs...
Month: February 2014
Fewer than 1 percent of state prison inmates obtained their guns at the time of offense from gun shows, costs of regulations exceed benefits
What is interesting is the remarkable consistency of the rate that criminals obtained their guns from gun shows (a copy of the earlier report is available here). One problem with using these surveys is that people think that if one were to actually stop all criminals...
CPRC on the Bill Martinez national radio show to discuss ABC News’ Special on Guns
The audio of John Lott's interview on the Bill Martinez's show that dealt with ABC News' Special is available here.
CPRC in the Christian Science Monitor: How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders
From the article in the Christian Science Monitor: Arguments for concealed carry "I don't argue that there are no problems with [concealed-carry permit holders], but when you look at the data it's pretty hard to find any other group in the population that's as...