UPDATED, originally Posted April 3, 2018: An article at Vox has gained attention for illustrating America’s “unique gun violence problem” in 17 maps and charts. A similar New York Times opinion piece by Nicolas Kristof has gained attention for illustrating “How to Reduce Shootings.” Below, we will respond to the individual graphs on Vox’s and then on Kristof’s terms. …
CPRC original research, Fact Checking Bias, gun control advocates, Gun Control Lies
Dr. John Lott has a piece at National Review that responds to some of the “Fact Checkers” who went after President Trump’s talk at the NRA Annual meeting. The piece starts this way:
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News about the media attacks on the NRA and the Trump administration regarding their supposed hypocrisy over gun-free zones. The piece starts here:
…The news media love to criticize hypocrisy – at least by conservatives – even when it doesn’t exist.
Robert Reich’s “5 Points to Counter the NRA” received over 2 million views just on one Facebook page (video is available here). So it isn’t too surprising that a large number of Americans are being convinced that stricter gun control is the answer for reducing gun-related deaths. The video above is from a discussion that John Lott had with Gavin McInnes about Reich’s video.…
Assault Weapons Ban, Fact Checking Bias, gun control advocates, Gun Control Lies
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Hill newspaper on the bias of fact checkers and the impact that they have on the gun control debate.
…Fact checkers are out of control, and on the issue of guns they no longer even try to pretend impartiality. Especially on social media, this is becoming a serious problem.
Politifact’s Jon Greenberg claims: “NRA’s Loesch cherry-picks terrorism deaths in France to argue against assault weapon ban.” They rate the claim as “mostly false.” On ABC News’ This Week Dana Loesch had this to say:
…Loesch: “France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times that directly responds to false claims being made by Fact Checkers:
…President Trump thinks arming school staff and teachers deter threats. Surprise, media fact checkers from The New York Times to FactCheck.org accuse him of “false and misleading claims” to “inaccurate facts.”
The FactCheck.org analysis has been carried on hundreds of news site.
Politifact’s Jon Greenberg claims: “Florida lawmaker repeats dodgy claim about crimes by cops vs. concealed permit holders.” They rate the claim as “false.”
This is in response to our research “comparing conviction rates of police and permit holders.” The Florida State Representative, Matt Caldwell (R-North Fort Myers), who made the claim being evaluated made a somewhat different statement: “A law enforcement officer is more likely to commit a crime than a CWP (concealed weapons permit) holder.”
Snopes.com recently fact-checked a post that we first put up in June 2015 and updated on January 7, 2016. This became an issue for them because a story that Fox News’ Special Report that had run a couple years ago was getting circulated on Facebook after the Florida high school shooting. …
The Star Tribune published an op-ed attacking Dr. John Lott for a talk that he had given in Lakeville, Minnesota on February 23rd. The attacks weren’t of much substance. This letter appeared on March 1st.
…Paul Shambroom’s Feb. 27 commentary about the Lakeville anti-gun vigil and my concurrent public safety lecture left out a few important facts (“A vigil and a pro-gun event, taken together”).
