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)
More Television Police Show Bias: Criminals Using Machine Guns in the US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rTDfOimvno Television crime shows continue to portray frequent murders with machine guns. The Crime Prevention Research Center has repeatedly shown that these depictions are far from reality, yet many shows still suggest that...
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/