Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics that discusses some of the other false claims in the gun control group's high school commencement hoax. I recently drove 950 miles to give the keynote commencement address at an online high school based in Las...
Mother Jones has never been know for its accuracy, and it surely isn’t going to start now. In a new article on February 1st titled, “Trump May Be Gone, But He Left Plenty of Lackeys Behind. Here Are Some of the Worst. How last-minute appointments will keep Trump’s...
From America's 1st Freedom, Bearing Arms, and Mike the Gun Guy to multiple articles in Michael Bloomberg's The Trace. Both all the Democratic US Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to Attorney General Bill Barr and powerful House Committee Chairs wrote a...
Before Thanksgiving, Politico ran a piece about the "Controversial gun advocate hired by Justice Department last month." Media outlets from the Daily Caller to the left-wing Talking Points Memos, Michael Bloomberg's The Trace...
The big response from Michael Bloomberg's gun control advocates to my op-ed in the Wall Street Journal was that I was a "gun lobby shill." It is a false claim that Shannon Watts and other gun control advocates have floated before and I have responded before. Neither...
Media Matters is upset again that a major news outlet has published John Lott's work. In this case, the anti-conservative group is miffed that he had a piece in the Wall Street Journal. WSJ gives discredited researcher John Lott a platform to falsely blame gun...
The Young Turk's Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur spent a recent show attacking Ben Shapiro for referencing the Crime Prevention Research Center's research on Mass Public Shootings around the world (156,000 views as of March 21, 2019). Following an earlier attack by...
The Rand Corporation reaches its conclusions on gun control by having its survey completely ignore studies that indicate that gun control is harmful. Their survey also inaccurately misstates the studies that they do reference. Time after time, their justifications for...
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...
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...
Notice that when gun control advocates supported laws that made it so that the Republican congressmen last year couldn't defend themselves, did Republicans attack Democrats for having "blood on their hands." No, but that is a common attack for Democrats. As noted...
A frequent claim by gun control advocates is that the National Research Council (NRC) 2005 report, "Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review," has "debunked," "emphatically rejected," "disproved," or failed to support research showing that right-to-carry laws reduce...