Dr. John Lott has a piece on the claims about systematic racism by police at the Federalist.
…Police officer Derek Chauvin’s killing of a black man, George Floyd, this past week launched protests and riots across the country. Despite there being no evidence yet that the officer was racist, it is simply assumed that racism motivated the white cop’s abusive actions.
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Frady about a range of issues dealing with the Coronavirus. They talked about gun cases that are being considered by the Supreme Court, including the case they recently considered involving New York City. They also discussed a range of issues involving the Coronavirus including meaning of excess deaths and whether the government is accurately counting the number of Coronavirus deaths.…
The state House has previously been the hardest part of passing these bills so this is big news in Tennessee. The vote in the House occurred on Wednesday, May 27, 2020.
…The GOP-led Tennessee House has advanced several proposals that would allow public college students with permits to carry concealed guns on campus and eliminate the requirement that residents obtain any permits to carry handguns, including for concealed weapons.
This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015.
Columnist Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: “Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?” We provided Volokh with a list of such cases, which he used.
Below, we have collected news stories on more cases of permit holders stopping mass public shootings with their handguns (we separately collect cases where concealed handguns are used to stop other crimes).…
Concealed Handguns Stopped Mass Public Shooting, CPRC original research, mass public shootings
For weeks now, people have been waiting to find out which of ten gun cases before the Supreme Court will be granted Cert. Some of these cases have actually been on hold for a year.
Six cases involved concealed carry. The Heller and McDonald decisions dealt only with the “to keep” part of the Second Amendment.…
In January, we posted a brief eleven second video from the CBS show Blue Bloods. The show made the false claim that police commit suicides at high rates because they have “easy access to guns,” and we provided the clip as yet another example of the misleading information provided about guns on television shows.…
Another inmate released from prison to protect him from the Coronavirus.
…A Colorado convict accused of murdering a 21-year-old woman last Saturday in Denver had been released from prison early due to the coronavirus, according to local media.
Cornelius Haney, 40, was nabbed over the weekend for the fatal shooting of Heather Perry in an alleyway, NBC’s 9News-Denver reported.
UPDATE: Here is a new piece that we have that summarizes the information in this post (click here).
Dr. Ngozi Ezike, director of Illinois Department of Public Health, in the above video from April 18, 2020, explains how extremely broadly deaths count as a Coronavirus death.
…“I just want to be clear in terms of the definition of ‘people dying of COVID.’ The case definition is very simplistic.
In order to buy protection from gun control groups, Wells Fargo has promised to give more than $10 million to support their research agenda.
…Trisha Schultz, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, said in a statement that the bank planned to invest more than $10 million over three years in studying gun-violence prevention and in improving school safety.
Dr. John Lott appeared on NewsMax TV’s liquid lunch to discuss our research on how the US compares to other countries in dealing with the Coronavirus.
(Friday, April 24, 2020, from 12:45 to 1:00 PM)
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