From an article by Dean Weingarten at The Truth About Guns: In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) made an error in the number of fatal firearms accidents they reported that occurred in 2014. It was so large that it was obvious. The number of fatal firearm...
Over and over again, people working for Michael Bloomberg's gun control organizations accuse Dr. John Lott of being a "gun lobby shill." Neither Lott's research nor the CPRC has received even $1 nor has he applied for funds from any gun organization or gun or...
UPDATED on July 6th, 2019: Original title: "More misleading information from Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety on guns: 'Analysis of Recent Mass Shootings,' Showing how mass public shootings keep occurring in gun-free zones" Originally posted on September 9, 2014....
Could the Parkland, FL shooter have made his motivations any clearer? “When you see me on the news you will all know who I am." "From the rath of my power they will know who I am." "With the power of my AR you will all know who I am." "You will all know what my name...
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...
Robert Reich's "5 Points to Counter the NRA" received over 2 million views just on one Facebook page (video is available here). So it isn't too surprising that a large number of Americans are being convinced that stricter gun control is the answer for reducing...
Mr. Johnson's Tweet is available here. Media Matters has a long history of distorting what people have written or said (also here). After pointing out that Hogg's attacks on others "has gone beyond any acceptable bounds of political discussion," the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Hill newspaper on the bias of fact checkers and the impact that they have on the gun control debate. Fact checkers are out of control, and on the issue of guns they no longer even try to pretend impartiality. Especially on social...
We know of seven cases: two involving a teacher at an elementary school (though in one of these cases the teacher was carrying the gun illegally) and the other six at colleges and universities around the country. These relatively minor and rare cases are consistent...
Politifact's Jon Greenberg claims: "NRA's Loesch cherry-picks terrorism deaths in France to argue against assault weapon ban." They rate the claim as "mostly false." On ABC News’ This Week Dana Loesch had this to say: Loesch: "France had a higher casualty rate in...
Snopes.com recently fact-checked a post that we first put up in June 2015 and updated on January 7, 2016. This became an issue for them because a story that Fox News' Special Report that had run a couple years ago was getting circulated on Facebook after...
Dr. John Lott along with Clarissa Rile Hayward a political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Christopher Huff at Beacon College, and Ernest McGowen, a Political Scientist at the University of Richmond was interviewed by Voice of America. The interview...