Month: July 2015

CPRC at Fox News: “Gun-free zones are killing us”

John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: Hours before the latest shooting at a movie theater in Louisiana, President Obama lamented what he regards as his greatest failure as president – his inability to pass gun control measures. In an interview with the...

Permit holder saves family of 4 that man was shooting at

Thomas McCary (Hamilton County sheriff's office) Fox 19 in Cincinnati, Ohio originally reported this story from Winton Hills, Ohio.  Fox News has this: [Thomas] McCary [62-years-old] was arguing with a woman around 8 p.m. Sunday night and, when the woman’s brother,...

Washington Post’s misleading article on “mass shootings” — falsely claiming “204 mass shootings” when virtually none of these cases qualify for the normal definition of “mass,” UPDATED: Response from Washington Post

Washington Post’s misleading article on “mass shootings” — falsely claiming “204 mass shootings” when virtually none of these cases qualify for the normal definition of “mass,” UPDATED: Response from Washington Post

Click on screenshots to enlarge. Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post has another article on guns.   Unfortunately, Ingraham explicitly ignores the FBI's definition on mass shootings.  The cases he ends up with involve very few murders and are heavily biased to...

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