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)
Talk at the Cooley Law School in Michigan on the Problems with Government Crime Data
Dr. John Lott gave a talk at the Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan about errors in the FBI crime data. The PowerPoint slides that correspond with the audio is available here. Talk at Cooley Law SchoolDownload
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/