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)
On Sirius XM’s Stacy On The Right: To Discuss Military Base Firearm Policy and Crime Trends
Dr. John Lott appeared on Stacy on the Right, a nationwide radio show, to discuss the Pentagon's long-overdue decision to allow service members to carry firearms on military bases, highlighting how this common-sense policy will help prevent mass shootings where...
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/