"You rarely hear an instance where a CCL holder is using their firearm in an unlawful manner. They’re generally law-abiding citizens, and they’ve gone to great lengths to get to where they’re at to have a CCL. And they’ve taken training to get there. And most of them,...
Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character simply comes out and says: "I hate guns." NBC's Reverie has had three episodes so far. A common theme through the three shows has been that Mara Kint (played by the very...
Updated information on mass public shootings from 1998 through 2024 available here. The rate for 1950 through 2024 is now 92%. UPDATED on July 6th, 2019: Original title: "More misleading information from Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety on guns: 'Analysis of...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network to correct the FBI's estimate on the rate that permit holders have stopped active shooters.
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in The Record, New Jersey's largest daily circulation newspaper. The piece discusses New Jersey's six new gun control laws. The gun control bills that New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed this week won’t save lives. If anything, it will lead...
The robber tries to carjack a vehicle, but the driver pulls a concealed handgun on him. He then tries to carjack a second driver, only to find that she is also armed. At that point, the robber gives up and hid in the restroom of a nearby store. The video here says it...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper on how Democrats are trying to financially strangle the firearms industry. The piece starts this way: If liberals can’t silence self-defense advocates or pass the gun control laws that they want, they will keep you...
Dr. John Lott talked to John Cardillo of The Rebel.media about liberal misinformation about crime and how the majority of murders occur in two percent of the counties.
When gun control advocates can't win on guns, they have tried to either silence those who support self-defense from having their views covered in the media, youtube banning videos intending to sell firearms or accessories or how to use guns or build them, or prevent...
Memphis, Tennessee, May 15, 2018 (NBC Action News Channel 5) A robber got shot trying to steal from a Memphis man at McDonald's, according to Memphis Police Department. MPD said four men tried to rob a man leaving the McDonald's near the intersection of S. Trezevant...
Many people have contacted us about problems that they have faced with NICS background checks, but we have only very recently started keeping track of some cases. We have previously discussed cases of mistakes by the NICS system in mistakenly denying people the...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk on the lies that gun control advocates make at the American Freedom Alliance in Los Angeles on May 20, 2018. Many of the graphs and a more discussion is available in our recent post available here and Dr. Lott's book The War on Guns...