In today’s Washington Post, Glenn Kessler has a devastating fact check of comments that President Obama made to Benedict College in South Carolina last Friday. Kessler gave Obama three out of four possible Pinocchios.
…“What we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries.
John Lott talked to Phil Valentine about Gun-Free Zones as well as our upcoming events on April 10th and 11th (March 9, 2015 from 5:30 to 6 PM).
…John Lott talked to Mark Levin on Tuesday, March 10th, 2015 from 7:35 to 7:46 PM. Interview available here.
Lott also talked about the DOJ report to David Madeira on 94.3 FM in Scranton. PA at 8:45 AM on Wednesday, March 11th.
…John Lott’s newest piece at Fox News starts this way:
…If President Obama can’t have his way with banning guns, it looks like his next option is to ban the bullets used by those guns. Too often, Obama has shown little regard for the law. He does what he wants. If you want him to actually follow the law, you will have to take him to court.
John Lott’s piece in the New York Post starts this way (for those interested in reading the original DOJ report on Ferguson it is available here):
…Addressing the nation from Selma, Ala., on Saturday, President Obama said that while racism may be “no longer endemic,” as it was 50 years ago, his Justice Department’s report on Ferguson shows that the “nation’s racial history still casts its long shadow upon us.”
Sorry: The Justice report doesn’t prove disparate treatment, let alone discrimination.
John Lott joined hosts Scott Ledger & Lexi Lapp to discuss the promised Somali terrorist threat against the Mall of America in Minnesota. Monday, March 2nd, 2015 from 8:22 to 8:30 AM.
…John Lott’s newest piece at Fox News started this way:
…Three-and-a-half months after a St. Louis Grand Jury decided not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for Michael Brown’s death, President Obama’s Department of Justice has finally followed suit – admitting that there is no case to be brought against Wilson.
John Lott’s op-ed in the Las Vegas Review Journal starts this way:
…Would you post a sign announcing that your home is a gun-free zone? Would you feel safer? Criminals don’t obey these signs. In fact, to criminals, gun-free zones look like easy targets.
So why do we put up these signs in other places?
A video of the first panel testifying on the bill to reduce the number of gun-free zones in Nevada is available below (Lott’s testimony starts at 5:54 into the video below). Since the first panel went through a lot of the facts regarding guns and schools as well as mass public shootings, the opponents of the bill were put in a difficult position. …