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...
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 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...
After President Trump met with members of Congress this past Wednesday to discuss gun control, Linda Qui at the New York Times wrote a "fact check" explaining why what he said was wrong. Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News that illustrates how poorly done and...
Last December 5th, the New York Times had yet another editorial making false claims about guns. The information from the Violence Policy Center has been recycled over and over again every few months by them. We have written numerous letters to the editor...
In November, Scientific American published a longer letter by Dr. John Lott and a rebuttal to his letter online. In an earlier post, we provided a point-by-point rebuttal to Ms. Moyer's claims. Lott had no control over what parts of his letter that Scientific...
Scientific American recently ran a 6,000-word article claiming that more guns mean more crime by Melinda Wenner Moyer, who works for Michael Bloomberg's The Trace. Dr. John Lott wrote a letter responding to some of the many errors and the author wrote a response to...
The Los Angeles Times had a news article by Lauren Rosenblatt attacking Dr. John Lott's testimony to the President's Election Integrity Commission. John Lott, head of the gun rights advocacy group Crime Prevention Research Center, suggested such a process would ease...
Philip Bump had an article in the Washington Post attacking Dr. John Lott's testimony before the president's Election Integrity Commission. The Post did not publish Lott's letter, but this is what was sent in: Dear Letters Editor: Philip Bump doesn’t understand how...
On September 12, 2017, the Washington Post's Christopher Ingraham had an article attacking Dr. John Lott's testimony before the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (video is available here and Lott's op-ed on the testimony is here). Here is part of...
UPDATE: The Des Moines Register has published a debate that we have had in the pages of their Sunday paper over the last couple of weeks. Original post: This past Wednesday the Des Moines Register ran an editorial calling for more gun control as a way of saving...
This letter wasn’t published, but it was sent to the Boston Globe after an op-ed by Comedy Central's Jordan Klepper claiming support for background checks on private sales of guns. The piece also makes bizarre attacks on gun owner's “masculinity." Dear Letters...