December 10, 2020
Month: December 2020
At London Center For Policy Research -Thought to Action Podcast: Andrew Pollack discusses the failures of gun-control and problems with school safety
President of the CPRC Andrew Pollack discusses the failures of gun-control and problems with school safety. November 29, 2020
UPDATED: What people are saying about Senate Democrats demanding that John Lott, CPRC’s former president, be fired from the US Department of Justice
From America's 1st Freedom, Bearing Arms, and Mike the Gun Guy to multiple articles in Michael Bloomberg's The Trace. Both all the Democratic US Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to Attorney General Bill Barr and powerful House Committee Chairs wrote a...
CBS’s Magnum PI shows criminals using Machine Guns four different times in one Episode
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to shoot people. CBS again shows criminals using machine guns. Magnum PI (S3 E2 Dec 11 2020) has criminals using...
You wouldn’t know it from watching TV, but mass public shootings rarely use rifles, let alone AR-15s
With all the discussion about having another assault weapon ban, from 1998 Through June 2019, only 13% of mass public shootings are done solely with any type of rifle. Twenty-eight percent involve only a rifle or a rifle in combination with a handgun and/or a...
At The Federalist: This Washington Post ‘Fact Check’ of Trump’s Election Integrity Claim is a Ragbag of Lies
I suppose it’s the prerogative of opinion writers to twist the facts to advance their narratives, but that’s not what fact-checkers are supposed to do. By CPRC President Andrew Pollack December 14, 2020 Fact-checking the fact-checkers ought to be a full-time job. It...
Nearly 90% of suspects arrested on gun charges in NYC were released, shootings surge by 96%. Surprised?
So how has the new bail rules and releasing prisoners from jail because of the Coronavirus worked in New York? But is it really surprising that at the same time that they are letting these shooters back on the street that there has been an increase in crime? About...
On 700 WLW The Gary Jeff Walker Show: Nikki Goeser talks about the Dangers of Gun-Free Zones and being stalked and defenseless.
CPRC Executive Director Nikki Goeser talks about being stalked and defenseless and the dangers of gun-free zones. December 9, 2020
At The Hill: We need more honest debate and rigorous research on gun control
CPRC's President Andrew Pollack has an op-ed at The Hill newspaper that responds to an attack from someone connected with the Brady Campaign against our past president, John Lott. The Hill recently published an opinion by Griffin Dix allegedly exposing a “time bomb...
CBS’s SWAT shows an “Assault Weapon” AR-15 with grenade launcher used by a criminal
Do you remember when the 1994 Federal Assault weapon banned semi-automatic rifles with two of six different features? One of those six was a grenade launcher attached to the gun. Presumably, few guns were banned because they had that feature. While there are...
On The Disruption Zone: Nikki Goeser, Stalked and Defenseless and why the 2nd Amendment Matters Now More than Ever
CPRC Executive Director Nikki Goeser talks with host Leland Conway about being stalked and defenseless. December 7, 2020 Segment 1 Segment 2
Nine Democrat US Senators Attack the Trump Administration’s Hiring of the CPRC’s former President John Lott
Before Thanksgiving, Politico ran a piece about the "Controversial gun advocate hired by Justice Department last month." Media outlets from the Daily Caller to the left-wing Talking Points Memos, Michael Bloomberg's The Trace...