Odessa American, August 11, 2018; The Spectrum (St. George, Utah), August 5, 2018; Sun Journal (New Bern, North Carolina), August 4, 2018; The Dispatch (Columbus and Starkville, Mississippi), August 2, 2018; Salem News (Salem, Ohio), August 11, 2018; Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah), August 3, 2018
Washington Post, August 3, 2018
Dunlap said there were many strange moments when he served on the panel, such as the time John R. Lott Jr., a controversial economist described as a “favorite” of the National Rifle Association, testified about introducing a background check for voters modeled off the federal instant check process for acquiring a gun.
“It was surreal,” Dunlap said. “I was like, why is this guy even here?” . . .
Shippensburg News (Shippensburg, Pennsylvania), August 7, 2018
Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon, Pennsylvania) , August 8, 2018
The Daily Signal, August 6, 2017
Breitbart, August 1, 2018
In light of the Second Circuit decision and other pertinent information, Lott wrote, “Gun control advocates don’t just have a problem with the Second Amendment – they also have real problems with the First Amendment.” . . .
KBUL, 970 AM, Billings, Montana, August 1, 2018
Furthermore, this whole debate really seems to have more to do with the 1st Amendment rather than the 2nd Amendment. 2nd Amendment expert John Lott has a piece posted at FoxNews.com. Here’s an excerpt:
Gun control advocates don’t just have a problem with the Second Amendment – they also have real problems with the First Amendment. In an era when people can use 3D metal printers to make guns, does the First Amendment protect a book detailing a gun-manufacturing process – but not a computer file that does the same thing?
A 2001 decision, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, said: “Communication does not lose constitutional protection as ‘speech’ simply because it is expressed in the language of computer code.”
Daily Signal, July 26, 2018
The producer told him that gun ownership had been falling in the United States, but ABC News’ own survey, conducted with The Washington Post, showed that gun ownership actually had held steady.
“Your own survey doesn’t show [that gun ownership is dropping],” he said he told the producer of the program, “Young Guns: A Diane Sawyer Special.”
At first, she didn’t believe him. Only after he forwarded a link to ABC News’ own survey, as well as to others that also showed the rate of gun ownership was constant, did she believe him.
“So what do you think ABC News uses as their survey? Does it use its own survey?” Lott asked his audience of 15- to 18-year olds Wednesday at the High School Leadership Summit, an educational conference for young conservatives sponsored by the nonprofit free-market activist group Turning Point USA. . . .
ThyBlackMan, July 26, 2018
But did Australia’s gun buyback program reduce violent gun crime?
No, according to John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center. “Their firearms homicide rate,” said Lott, “had been falling for a decade prior to the buyback. It continued falling at the same rate after the buyback. There was no sudden drop, just a fairly constant decline that continued even as gun ownership rose back up to previous levels. The armed robbery rate rose in the first five years after the buyback. After another ten years, the rate had fallen to pre-buyback levels.” . . .
Powerline, July 25, 2018
The CNN-generated hysteria reached a point where The Hill headlined: “Media frenzy stirs up violence against Minnesota congressman.” The column, by John Lott, recounted some of the Democrats’ smears:
CNN’s K-File wasn’t done with Lewis. On Friday, it ran another story on Lewis’ “long history of racist rhetoric about African-Americans.” They were upset about another 2012 monologue.
“What the welfare state has done to the black community, a hundred years of racism could not do. A hundred years of racism could not break it up, it could not destroy black families. Jim Crow could not do it. But what dependency has done, is it has caused unwanted pregnancy, illegitimacy.”
Lewis could have simply quoted black economists Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams. In a 2011 interview with Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal, Williams argued: “The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do, what Jim Crow couldn’t do, what the harshest racism couldn’t do. And that is to destroy the black family.”
So are Sowell and Williams racist?
I would add that Lewis could also be quoting, or anticipating, Candace Owens. Lott notes that Lewis’s family, like so many others, has been threatened by Democrats:
[T]here is a real cost to this media bias. Right after the news stories broke last week about his “slut” comments, Lewis told me his two daughters were threatened with violence. Last year, mobs surrounded Lewis’ home and frightened neighbors into calling the police. Threats were made about his townhall meetings.
The dark side of this “fake” news is that violence is being stirred up against people based on media lies.
Gettysburg Times, July 25, 2018
The recent rash of mass shootings has unfortunately been accompanied by an unprecedented assault on our constitutional safeguards by the liberal left. The Pennsylvania Constitution says it even better than our Second Amendment to the United States Constitution – “The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned.” I also find it interesting that nearly 97 percent of mass shootings occur in gun free zones, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . .
Nevada Appeal, July 20, 2018
John Lott’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” proves categorically the truth of the title. . . .
World Net Daily, July 11, 2018
The Post Millennial, July 28, 2018
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