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...
The left-wing Pacific Standard magazine has a very one-sided piece attacking Dr. John Lott. Lott spent 45 minutes talking to Peter Moskowitz, the author of the Pacific Standard article, before doing a debate on gun control at Baylor University. Below are some quotes...
On March 10th, Rachael Joseph, the Director of Outreach for Protect Minnesota and who works with Bloomberg's Everytown, had a piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune attacking Dr. John Lott. The piece was supposedly about Lott's op-ed on Stand Your...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Daily Caller that discussed Jonah Peretti's past of impersonating At the moment, media outlets want nothing to do with BuzzFeed, the “news” website that published unverified, “fake” allegations against Donald Trump. The...
I have responded previously to some of these claims by Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes. Their latest attack is over at ThinkProgress, which bills itself as providing a progressive perspective. No doubt, the attack was prompted by the media coverage that I have been...
DeFilippis and Hughes have another piece attacking Dr. Lott's new book The War on Guns (UPDATE: DeFilippis and Hughes discretely note by their byline that they have updated this piece, but we haven't taken the time to go through it again to...
Gun control advocates want to argue that the only reason that people would support gun ownership is because they are getting paid off by gun makers. Shira Goodman, the Executive Director of CeaseFirePA, made this argument in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (on November...
Gun-free zones are a serious problem. Shannon Watts, the head of Michael Bloomberg's Moms Demand Action, claimed that research that John Lott had done was "wrong and misleading" and that Lott was "debunked." When Lott responded...
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) has spent some time putting together contact information for the CPRC's academic board of advisors and the deans of their schools (see here and here). The notion is that they think that they can intimidate all these...
Last August, Taylor Woolrich was the first speaker at our conference for Students for Concealed Carry. Her tragic story about a woman who was being stalked and her desire to be able to defend herself received a lot of media coverage. In a piece at Buzzfeed last night...
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Mother Jones, a leftist magazine funded by people such as George Soros, and I have been in a running feud for years. They have continually made false claims about guns, often claims that have been cited by...