On Chicago’s WIND-AM: When Misinformation on Gun Crime Drives Bad Gun Control Policy

May 26, 2022 | Radio

Dr. John Lott talked to Shaun Thompson on Chicago’s WIND-AM about his most recent piece in Real Clear Politics that compares our new survey on what Americans think is the percent of violent crime that involves guns to what the data actually shows. Hint the gap is very large: the average American thinks that it is 46%, but the true figure is less than 8%.

(Wednesday, May 18, 2022, from 6:35 to 6:52 PM ET)

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