Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. Real Clear Politics also provided an alternative viewpoint from Bloomberg's Everytown. Lott's piece also appeared in the Epoch Times, Florida Daily, The Political Insider, and Zero Hedge. . A favorite talking point...
Here are the numbers for those under 20, but there are some issues with the accuracy of these numbers. UPDATE: The New England Journal of Medicine has a letter making the claim that children are more likely to die from guns than any other cause. The piece contains...
We have previously written about all the obvious firearm safety rules Alec Baldwin failed to follow (see here). George Clooney, Adam Baldwin (no relation to Alec), and John Schneider all slammed Baldwin, saying he violated the most basic firearm safety rules. George...
While the CDC has made some big mistakes exaggerating the number of accidental gun deaths, it is a common refrain that the CDC is missing out on accidental gun deaths for those under age 18. A new Associated Press report claims that the true number of accidental gun...
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily is available here: Which are you more likely to be killed by: a car or a gun? We all know how many people die on the roads each year, so it would be mindblowing if there were actually more gun deaths than motor...
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Which is more likely to kill you: a car or a gun? Various publications, from The Economist to Forbes, and many others have been reporting that gun deaths are set to overtake road deaths before the year is up. But...
The Economist magazine had the headline in mid January: "A gun is now more likely to kill you than a car is." It is a claim that has been repeated over and over again (see Forbes, The Atlantic, Slate (question 9), Vox (also at MSN News), RT, college newspapers across...
Leonard Pitts, Jr. starts off his national newspaper column this way: Tucker Carlson said on Fox that more children die of bathtub drownings than of accidental shootings. They don't. Yet, Mr. Pitts is the one who is wrong. According to the U.S. Consumer Product...
in 2001, there were 79 accidental gun deaths from hunting. That was about 9.9% of the 802 accidental gun deaths that occurred that year. If the share of accidental gun deaths from hunting remained the same in 2012, that would imply that there were 54 accidental deaths...
Patrice J. Lee, Christian Toto, and CPRC's John Lott answered audience questions on a range of issues including guns (Australian gun control, guns in the home), zero tolerance, and media hypocrisy on violence. On Fox News, the Stossel Show airs at 5 PM on Saturday, 10...
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