Bloomberg's promise to spend $50 million this year on gun control efforts is just the tip of the iceberg. As the NY Times reports it, this is 2.5 times the $20 million that the NRA has been spending a year on political activities. But that $50 million is really just a...
Month: April 2014
CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: “Michael Bloomberg, Gun Control And Fabricated Numbers”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: No doubt, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg passionately believes in gun control. To his credit, he puts his own money — tens of millions of dollars, and possibly much more — into...
CPRC in the Chicago Tribune on gun-free zones at military bases
John Lott's op-ed on gun-free zones at military bases at the Chicago Tribune starts this way: What stops a mass public shooting is a person with a gun. Frequently it isn't even necessary to fire the gun. But the length of time between when an attack starts and when...
A note on mass victim knife attacks around the world: a single, very small 16 year old was able to wound at least 24 people with a knife in just 5 minutes
John Lott had a discussion about the Pennsylvania attack on Coast to Coast AM (April 10, 2014 from 1:08 to 1:11 AM). Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburgh was the horrific scene on Wednesday with "at least 24" injured, including 5 critically wounded. The...
CPRC in the news at Fox News: “After Fort Hood: Should soldiers be allowed to bear arms on base?”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: In debates on gun control, gun opponents usually speculate about what might go wrong. Unfortunately, the current debate over arming soldiers on military bases is no different. Except for the military police,...
Media Matters, TPM, and others mislead over CPRC’s interview on MSNBC: Gun-free zones on military bases
It is quite flattering that any time Media Matters and TPM spent so much real estate going after me. Media Matters' post was at the top of their front page from late morning on Friday until at least midnight (my last check). [UPDATE: As of 6:30 AM on Monday, April...
CPRC making a difference in the debate over the Fort Hood Mass Public Shooting
John Lott's op-ed on the shooting at Fox News starts this way: The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year. For all my research on how to stop or prevent mass public shootings and all...
A personal note about the Ft Hood shooting today: When family are near the attack
Personal note from John Lott: With all the people who I have talked to who have been present at mass public shootings over the 16 years since I first wrote about gun-free zones in the Wall Street Journal, this attack at Fort Hood was different: my second oldest son,...
New York Times Claim: “a handful of mostly Southern states that allow people with permits to take concealed guns into bars and restaurants” that serve alcohol
The figure is from opencarry.org. Playing the typical hypothetical possibility angle, the New York Times story quotes one worried restaurant owner saying: “On some nights you have college kids wall to wall in here drinking,” he said. “You don’t want a gun in here.” No...