Lott also talked about this bias on entertainment television on Houston's giant 50,000-watt KTRH (Monday, May 14, 2018, 6:30 and 7:30 AM hour EDT). 6:30 AM segment 7:30 AM segment From KTRH's website: The media's distorted bias against guns is seeping out of the news...
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On the Larry Elder Show to discuss how TV entertainment shows push gun control
Dr. John Lott talked to Larry Elder on his national radio show about how entertainment shows on television keep pushing gun control. The videos of the segments being discussed are available here. (Friday, May 11, 2018, from 7:22 to 7:30 PM)
National Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Surveys on Concealed Handgun Reciprocity and other issues
For 29 years, the National Association of Chiefs of Police has conducted annual surveys of how police chiefs view gun regulations. (Click on survey results to enlarge.) The last couple of surveys ask a different question than the earlier ones. The most recent...
At National Review: Trump’s NRA Speech: A Response to the Fact-Checkers
Dr. John Lott has a piece at National Review that responds to some of the "Fact Checkers" who went after President Trump's talk at the NRA Annual meeting. The piece starts this way: On Sunday, Jake Tapper told Kellyanne Conway, “I would like [Trump] to stop lying.”...
MSNBC mentions President Trump using CPRC research on gun-free zones
Mike Pesca with Slate mentions President Trump using CPRC's research on mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones. An explanation for why Pesca and others are wrong in questioning the CPRC numbers is available here. May 4, 2018
In the Baptist Record: “To arm, or not to arm”
Dr. Lott's piece in The Baptist Record for the Mississippi Baptists is shown here (click on pictures to enlarge).
At Fox News: Media portrayal of gun ownership is inaccurate and biased
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News on how television entertainment programs keep pushing for gun control. The piece starts this way: The media’s pro-gun control bias doesn’t just distort news coverage. TV networks have used their primetime entertainment shows...
On the Michigan Talk Network with Steve Gruber about whether the NRA is hypocritical about gun-free zones when they banned guns during President Trump’s talk
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about whether the NRA is hypocritical about gun-free zones when they banned guns during President Trump's talk. (Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 8:45 to 8:53 AM).
On the lies by gun control advocates and how opposition to gun control has changed over time
Dr. John Lott's talk in Dallas on May 6, 2018, at the NRA Annual Convention. He went through a series of lies by gun control advocates after he briefly discussed on the opposition to gun control has changed over the last couple of decades. Unfortunately, the graphs...
Klarevas’ false claims about the federal assault weapons ban and mass public shootings
The Data files for the data used below is available here. A large amount of research has been done on the federal assault weapons ban that was in effect from 1994 to 2004. It has consistently found no statistically significant impact on mass public shootings or any...
On the BBC to discuss President Trump’s comments about at the NRA convention
Dr. John Lott interviewed on BBC Radio 4 regarding President Trump's comments about at the NRA convention. Note, despite the BBC's claim, Dr. Lott wasn't at Trump's talk. Lott's interview was pre-tapped so he hadn't heard the lead in that was given in the on-air...
Crime Prevention Research Center in the News: Townhall, American Spectator, and other places around the country
Townhall, April 28, 2018 But a study of global mass-shooting incidents from 2009 to 2015 by the Crime Prevention Research Center, headed by economist John Lott, shows the U.S. doesn't lead the world in mass shootings. In fact, it doesn't even make the top 10, when...