https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc85xTZIjtU On October 24th, Dr. John Lott gave a talk at Tufts University to their Federalist Society. The talk was on gun control laws that discriminate against minorities and the poor. The audio is available here.
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The Washington Post actually has a positive article on gun ownership
The Washington Post probably ran this article because they thought conservatives would be upset about blacks owning and carrying guns. In fact, from the very beginning of Dr. John Lott's research in More Guns, Less Crime, he has argued that the very people who are the...
Did Thurgood Marshall understand the benefit of guns to blacks?
With the death of Cecilia Marshall, Thurgood Marshall's wife, the New York Times has an article on her life. Here is one interesting tidbit about blacks carrying guns for protection. She also accompanied defense lawyers on sometimes harrowing assignments to the...
Michael Bloomberg group pours $2.5 million into a low-profile North Carolina’s lieutenant governor race to defeat Black Republican Mark Robinson, ten times what Robinson spent
A group funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg spent $2.5 million to support the Democratic candidate for North Carolina’s lieutenant governor. By contrast, the Republican who he tried to defeat, Mark Robinson, spent $234,088. Robinson beat his Democrat opponent by...
Black Gun Ownership Soars in 2020, firearm sales for blacks increased by 58.2% during the first half of 2020
The CPRC has already documented the huge increase in concealed handgun permits by blacks. From 2015 to 2019/2020, in the four states that provide data by race over that time period, the number of black people with permits increased almost 55.6% faster than the number...