How many mass public shootings have there been at gun ranges? Zero. In fact, 94% all the mass public shootings take place at places where guns are banned. But the television show isn't interested in realism, but want to push back against the narrative that armed...
Month: February 2020
On the Michigan Talk Network: Discussing Michael Bloomberg’s claim that 95% of murders are committed by young minority males in “virtually all cities”
Dr. John Lott talked Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about Michael Bloomberg's claim that 95% of murders are committed by young minority males in "virtually every city." (Wednesday, February 12, 2020, from 8:35 to 8:44 PM)
In the Sante Fe New Mexican: Understanding New Mexico’s ‘red-flag’ law
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed on a Red Flag bill that is going through the New Mexican state legislature. Nobody wants dangerous people to get guns. To some, the obvious solution is “red-flag” laws, which take away the guns of people deemed dangerous to themselves or...
At Townhall: While Democrats Think This Bill Will Increase Illegal Immigration, The Opposite Will Happen
Dr. John Lott's latest op-ed at Townhall starts this way: Democrats think that they have figured out a way to encourage more illegal aliens to come to the United States. The bill, “Protecting the Right to Organize,” which passed the House last week, allows illegal...
At Fox News: Why Bloomberg’s 2015 Racist ‘Stop and Frisk’ remarks are riddled with inaccuracies
Bloomberg now claims that the comments that Dr. Lott discusses below didn't represent his real views on these issues: “It’s just not the way that I think, and it doesn’t reflect what I do every day.” But the question is what is more likely to represent his true views:...
Jan Morgan interviews Nikki Goeser on her book “Stalked and Defenseless”
While the CPRC's Nikki Goeser was in Alabama to give a talk at the BamaCarry Freedom Conference, Jan Morgan interviewed Nikki about her new book "Stalked and Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband in Front of Me." They covered everything from...
Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s false claims about his knowledge of guns
Pete Buttigieg has frequently called on his military training in making points on gun control. For example this is something that we wrote up after the Miami Democratic Presidential Debate in June last year. No self-respecting military in the world uses semi-automatic...
2019 was a record year for NICS checks
In each of the last nine months of 2019 there was a record number of NICS checks, and January 2020 has set yet another record. The year 2019 had 28.4 million NICS checks, about 800,000 more than the previous record set in 2016.
UPDATED: Mass public shooting in Thailand mall and military base, at least 26 murdered, 57 wounded, six in intensive care
This is the second mass shooting in less than a month in Thailand. In the previous attack, a school director used a handgun to kill three people, including a two-year-old boy, and wound four others. Regarding the latest attack, Skynews reports that at least 26 people...
Television Shows Misrepresenting Facts: CBS’ “FBI: Most Wanted” Saying AR-15s are a machine gun, Police concerned about safety
This new TV show is hardly unique in showing criminals using machine guns, though it goes further than many in indicating that an AR-15 is a machine gun. The FBI agents here express concern about facing a machine gun. On TV shows, machine guns always seem to be the...
On the Michigan Talk Network: Mike Bloomberg Is Running Two Misleading Gun Control Ads During The Super Bowl
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about Mike Bloomberg running two misleading gun control ads during the Super Bowl. (Wednesday, February 5, 2020)
Television Shows Misrepresenting Facts: Fox’s The Deputy Showing Hero “Deputy” protecting illegal aliens from ICE
Fox’s new show, The Deputy, is hardly unique on the topic of illegal aliens, and this show has the Deputy who is protecting illegal aliens from ICE. The deputy is a hard as nails law enforcement officer, who comes from a long family of law enforcement officers. He is...










