In an opening scene, Magnum PI has Thomas Magnum dreaming about yet another machine gun attack against him (Season 3, Episode 7, February 5, 2021). Given the number of machine gun attacks against Magnum in the series, this is an entirely reasonable concern on his part.
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.…
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This episode of CBS’s NCIS LA pushes a common Michael Bloomberg theme on women and guns (Season 12 Episode 10, February 14, 2021). A woman explains to the NCIS LA agents that she has a gun for protection, but the gun was stolen. She says that she never thought that one of the people she knew would steal it, and Marty Deeks (played by Eric Christian Olsen) says in exasperation: “We never do.”…
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Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan talk network about what Democrats claim is Trump’s “Big Lie” that instigated the January 6th riot at the US Capitol. They talked about Lott’s piece at Townhall.
(Thursday, February 11, 2021, from 8:35 to 8:46 AM)
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Ironically at the same time that Democrats in the House impeached Donald Trump for supposedly inciting the January 6th riot, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee hires as a Senior Advisor someone who last year lauded “Looting as a Vital form of social Protest” and condemned the police. The Tweet shown above is from Dyjuan Tatro at the end of last August.…
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Dr. John Lott was on Kansas’ KSAL Morning News w/Jeff Garretson to discuss the politicization of research and to figure out whether researchers are being honest with you as well as what the Biden administration is doing to make gun ownership difficult and costly.
(Monday, February 8, 2021, from 9:45 to 10:00 AM)
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times responding to claims that Trump lied about election fraud.
…Last week, during Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, we were told that his offense was “the big lie” that the election was stolen. That “big lie” is responsible for the Jan.
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of CBS’s NCIS LA (Season 12, Episode 8, January 10, 2021) has an agent warn: “those are AR-15s.” The gun then fires like a machine gun.…
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“Ghost guns” are homemade guns. It is already illegal for people to sell these guns because they don’t have serial numbers. Guns are pretty simple items to build. You can build a shotgun with a few sections of pipe and a nail. Requiring background checks on all parts of guns has been one of the goals of Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown.…
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Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio show about how the what is House Bill 127 and what are Biden’s plans for classifying semi-auto rifles as Class III weapons.
Lars Larson’s National show is listened to by over 1.25 million people.
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Dr. John Lott appeared on both the Lars Larson National and Northwest Radio Shows to discuss his latest op-ed piece at Townhall on the Senate impeachment trial. Hint: the answer to the question is “no.”
(Friday, February 12, 2021)
The Northwest show appears on 21 radio stations, including KVI in Seattle, KXL in Portland, and KXLY in Spokane, with about 350,000 listeners.…
