Other types of crime statistics, including the National Crime Victimization Survey, show current levels of violent crime far lower than their peaks in the early 1990s. . . . Louis Jacobson, "Joe Biden is correct that violent crime is near a 50-year low,"...
The Anti-Defamation League has a new report titled: "Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2022." They claim that all the murderers of the 25 people murdered by extremists in 2022 were "right-wingers," which they describe as white supremacists, anti-government...
UPDATED (original post on July 19th): Errors in Associated Press article titled "Rare in US for an active shooter to be stopped by bystander." It isn't common for mass shootings to be stopped in such fashion. From 2000 to 2021, fewer than 3% of 433 active attacks in...
Dr. John Lott has another piece at Real Clear Politics on media bias regarding crime rates and Trump. The media keeps going out of its way to fact check President Trump’s claims as false. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump is one of many journalists who can’t be...
“You hear about certain places like Chicago and you hear about what’s going on in Detroit and other — other cities, all Democrat run. Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of twenty. The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run.”Donald Trump, "Remarks...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZFk4nnK0rk New: Media Bias Fact Check has updated their post on the CPRC, though it really just repackages "claims made that John Lott & the CPRC are funded by the NRA" No evidence is provided. The video of the claim by Alan...
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 on "How to Reduce Shootings" and another at the...
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: On Sunday, Jake Tapper told Kellyanne Conway, “I would like [Trump] to stop lying.”...
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...
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...
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...
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...