Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about financial institutions stopping transactions involving firearm companies. (Tuesday, June 19, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:52 AM)
Month: June 2018
In News article at Fox News: Experts shoot holes in CNN’s report on school gun violence
Dr. John Lott was interviewed about recent claims about how frequent schools shootings are in the US. From the Fox News article: John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center and contributor to FoxNews.com, who has published “More Guns, Less Crime,”...
Two Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Stop What Could have been a Mass Public Shooting in Tumwater, Washington
"He is a hero," Adams said. "He took action. I really think more people could have been shot... he saved us all." A wild rampage at a Walmart in Tumwater, Washington was stopped when three concealed handgun permit holders confronted and killed the attacker. The...
Illinois: More evidence that concealed handgun permits holders are extremely law-abiding
"You rarely hear an instance where a CCL holder is using their firearm in an unlawful manner. They’re generally law-abiding citizens, and they’ve gone to great lengths to get to where they’re at to have a CCL. And they’ve taken training to get there. And most of them,...
TV bias on guns: NBC’s Reverie: Main character says “I hate guns,” always emphasizing danger of guns
Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character simply comes out and says: "I hate guns." NBC's Reverie has had three episodes so far. A common theme through the three shows has been that Mara Kint (played by the very...
UPDATED: Mass Public Shootings keep occurring in Gun-Free Zones: 94% of attacks since 1950
Updated information on mass public shootings from 1998 through 2024 available here. The rate for 1950 through 2024 is now 92%. UPDATED on July 6th, 2019: Original title: "More misleading information from Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety on guns: 'Analysis of...
On the Michigan Talk Network: Correcting the FBI’s estimate on the rate that permit holders have stopped active shooters
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network to correct the FBI's estimate on the rate that permit holders have stopped active shooters.
At The Record (New Jersey): New NJ gun laws don’t make us safer
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in The Record, New Jersey's largest daily circulation newspaper. The piece discusses New Jersey's six new gun control laws. The gun control bills that New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed this week won’t save lives. If anything, it will lead...
“Suspected Walmart robber tries to carjack two different cars, both drivers pull out guns”
The robber tries to carjack a vehicle, but the driver pulls a concealed handgun on him. He then tries to carjack a second driver, only to find that she is also armed. At that point, the robber gives up and hid in the restroom of a nearby store. The video here says it...
At The Hill: Democrats seek to restrict gun rights by targeting financial institutions
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper on how Democrats are trying to financially strangle the firearms industry. The piece starts this way: If liberals can’t silence self-defense advocates or pass the gun control laws that they want, they will keep you...
On John Cardillo’s Off the Cuff to discuss misinformation about crime
Dr. John Lott talked to John Cardillo of The Rebel.media about liberal misinformation about crime and how the majority of murders occur in two percent of the counties.
Some financial companies move to cut off services to firearm companies
When gun control advocates can't win on guns, they have tried to either silence those who support self-defense from having their views covered in the media, youtube banning videos intending to sell firearms or accessories or how to use guns or build them, or prevent...