Does CBS think that all mass public shooters, indeed all criminals, use machine guns? CBS’s FBI Most Wanted (S2 E5 Jan 26, 2021) once again has a machine gun used in a mass public shooting. The weapon is referred to in the show as “an assault weapon.” Lots of...
This episode of CBS's FBI shows a public shooting at a quinceañera (a celebration of a Latino girl's fifteenth birthday) at a restaurant (S3 E4 Jan 24, 2021). A white supremacist did the shooting. The aggrieved father whose wife and daughter have just been murdered...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. It was reprinted at the Daily Signal and the Federalist on July 10th and ZeroHedge and Instapundit on July 8th. On Saturday, a man drove his car onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter...
TV shows continually illustrate criminals using machine guns. In this story that spans an episode of two separate CBS shows on the FBI, white supremacists kidnap a school bus full of young children using AR-15s (FBI S2 E18 and FBI Most Wanted S1 E9 March 24, 2020)....
Dr. John Lott was on Canada’s CTV about his reaction to the mass public shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Lott talked about what motivates these killers. He discussed how the vast majority aren't motivated by political views, but by the desire to get...
The killer's manifesto made a couple of things clear. He is a racist who identifies with the Christchurch shooter and says that they have the same views. The New Zealand killer was a socialist/environmentalist who supported gun control. The El Paso killer is also an...
The Excel file with detailed information on mass public shootings is available here. With all the discussion about having another assault weapon ban, only 13% of mass public shootings are done solely with any type of rifle. Twenty-eight percent involve only a rifle or...
It is only too easy to find media who are blaming Trump for the mass public shooting in New Zealand on March 14, 2019. Below are transcripts of some CNN clips. Just one question to think about: If Trump is so responsible for these attacks, why is it that these attacks...
“the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.” — CNN’s Don Lemon, October 30, 2018 "I said that the biggest terror threat in this country comes from radicals on the...
“right-wing terrorism has become far more commonplace — and, since 9/11, far more deadly — than Islamist terrorism in America” -- Max Boot, Washington Post, October 28, 2018. "the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the...