John Lott talked to Larry Elder on his national radio show to discuss the California bar shooting, gun-free zones, and media bias.
(Monday, November 12, 2018, from 8:20 to 8:40 PM)
At the National Review: Yes, Armed Civilians Can — and Do — Stop Mass Shootings: Data ignored by the FBI show the importance of defensive gun use in bringing down active shooters
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at National Review Online. . Two days after last week’s attack on an Oregon elementary school, the Associated Press opened a news story with a familiar claim: “Few mass shootings in the U.S. end like the deadly attack on an...
Definition of “mass shooting” was clarifying and useful, and ref. to the FBI definition. Ditto stats over time in the US–a peak in 2012, etc.–compared with the big statement that worldwide there’s great increase, and mentioning the Russian school shooting.
Are such talks available in text form to allow passing along? Parts are worthwhile to excerpt and spread out, but few or none would take a chance and sit down to listen to a recording.
Great to raise strongly the intent and need of such killers to attack where victims are helpless.
Thanks, Randy, my book “The War on Guns” goes through this information in detail. But here are some links.
https://crimeresearch.org/2017/01/cprc-daily-caller-another-gun-free-zone-another-mass-shooting/
https://crimeresearch.org/2017/11/fox-news-good-guys-guns-saving-lives/
https://crimeresearch.org/2017/11/fox-news-texas-church-shooting-not-first-time-good-guy-gun-takes-mass-shooter/
https://crimeresearch.org/2018/08/at-fox-news-a-good-guy-with-a-gun-has-saved-many-lives-in-florida-something-the-media-rarely-report/
There are many other op-eds that we have on this.
https://crimeresearch.org/2016/09/uber-driver-in-chicago-stops-mass-public-shooting/
https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/vince-vaughn-explains-the-obvious-how-mass-killers-pick-out-venues-where-their-victims-are-sitting-ducks/