Dr. John Lott talked to Dana Loesch on her TV show Relentless about the relationship between illegal drugs and gun crime. (Friday, March 30, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:51 PM)
Month: March 2018
Yet another example of how Media Matters distorts what people say
Mr. Johnson's Tweet is available here. Media Matters has a long history of distorting what people have written or said (also here). After pointing out that Hogg's attacks on others "has gone beyond any acceptable bounds of political discussion," the...
Media Bias on guns: Chicago Fire: Does ammunition in a fire pose a real threat to firemen?
In Episode 15 of Season 6 (March 22, 2018), Chicago Fire shows scenes where a man's ammunition is set off by a fire. Bullets shoot everywhere, seriously wounding both the man's mother and a fireman. (If you don't mind increasing NBC's estimated number of people who...
Bret Baier’s Special Report on calls to repeal the 2nd Amendment and Ban Guns
After retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens' op-ed in the New York Times calling for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment, Bret Baier's Special Report discussed the reaction to it and what it means. Stevens has only the second recent column in the New York Times,...
The mirage that young people are in mass pushing for gun control. If anything, younger people are least inclined towards it.
For those who were at the "March for Our Lives" event this past Saturday, there were lots of old people with grey hair and lots of middle age people, but relatively few who were high school age. Of course, we weren't able to see the whole crowd, nor did we really...
At Fox News: “Spending bill passed by Congress could disarm some veterans”
This is a news article by Maxim Lott at Fox News. It warns that the Obama administration program that banned people veterans who receive help on their finances from owning guns. The CPRC alerted Fox to these cases. . . . Under current policy, the Department of...
Do states with stricter gun control laws have fewer gun deaths? No. Do they have fewer homicides and suicides? Definitely not
Do more gun control laws mean fewer firearm deaths? Gun control advocates typically provide graphs looking across states that show more gun control laws related to fewer firearm deaths, but there are real problems with this approach. A Boston University School of...
In the Washington Times: NAACP “Leaving the most vulnerable defenseless”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece with David Clarke at the Washington Times. The piece starts this way. Democrats don’t seem to trust poor blacks with guns. It is something that we have seen since at least the end of the Civil War. Yet, it is poor blacks, who are the...
CPRC in the News: Voice of America, Daily Signal, Utah Chronicle, CNSNews, Odessa American, and others
Voice of America, March 16, 2018 Though the NRA has come on board, other gun rights advocates say treatment, not gun seizure, is the answer to dealing with gun owners who show signs of trouble. "If you really believe somebody is a danger to themselves or others, then...
UPDATE: Gun ownership remains at 47%, but that probably underestimates the true rate
UPDATE: Do you ever notice that most of these surveys on gun ownership seem to be done soon after a mass public shooting? It isn't like they include this question in surveys they do every March or October. A new survey conducted from March 10th to 14th, 2018 by NBC...
NBC/WSJ Survey Shows how people’s views on the benefits of guns has changed over the last 20 years
NBC/WSJ (question 14 on page 12) have a new survey by the Democratic polling firm Hart Research, and it finds that Americans are much more likely to view guns as making them safer than they were 20 years ago. The results show a very similar pattern to that found by...
On CNN’s Michael Smerconish for The Gun Debate: Aiming for Facts
Dr. John Lott debated Vox's German Lopez about the facts behind the gun control debate. This took place with the backdrop of the gun control debate in Washington, DC. Some of the sources for Dr. Lott's statements. Comparing murder rates and gun ownership across...