According to police, officers were called at about 4:45 a.m. Monday to a residence off Granger Road and Long Avenue after the homeowner called 911 to report a burglary in progress. Police say Mitchell was found inside, arrested and booked into Becker County Jail....
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Gun Control Advocates Blame “Lax Firearm Laws” in “Florida, Arizona, and Georgia” for Haiti’s Gun Problems, including their “automatic weapons”
Bursts of automatic weapons were fired, until late Monday night, from outside the international airport towards the landing runway, with gunmen simulating taking down an aircraft. Footage obtained by Haitian-Caribbean News Network (HCNN) shows a man standing on...
Bloomberg’s Everytown Blocks the Crime Prevention Research Center on Twitter
Bloomberg's Everytown joins Shannon Watts and Moms Demand in blocking the Crime Prevention Research Center on Twitter. Among that Everytown found too troublesome are shown here.
Yet more Gun Control Advocates Blame John Lott for Mass Public Shootings
Michael Bloomberg’s The Trace earlier this year figured out who was responsible for mass public shootings in the US. In a series of Tweets after mass public shootings, The Trace wrote: “After a mass shooting, people often ask why the U.S. hasn’t passed stronger gun...
Gun control advocates are clear. Jeffrey Fagan: “unless there are strong measures to reduce the supply of firearms, and also the legality of firearms, this will have little effect on the unacceptably high rates of both lethal and nonlethal firearm violence”
Fagan argues we must reduce the supply of firearms, not the supply of black market guns or guns in criminal hands, but guns in general. As we have pointed out many times, if such a claim was correct, that guns on net are bad, murder rates should fall whenever all guns...
Mom’s Demand Shannon Watts Blocks John Lott on Twitter
Shannon Watts and the Bloomberg groups are taking credit for Jason Aldean being cancelled on Country Music Television for his song "Try that in a Small Town." They were very upset about the reference to guns in the song: "Got a gun that my granddad gave me." Watts...
Do Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) know anything about the gun control laws they are voting on?
"We all know that because of all the ammunition magazines that can be strapped on to so many pistols that these become automatic weapons similar to AK-47s. Pistols with stabilizing braces, have a reputation in this modern America, though they have been formally...
Biden to Hold Gun Control Summit with Gun Control Groups this week
This is being sold as a gun "safety" summit, but they won't have us or others who represent a different view on how to make people "safer." The message from the Democrats and the gun control advocates is that they are the only ones who support "safety." . Work is...
California Governor Newsom Pushes Constitutional Amendment to Restrict Gun Rights, and why his proposals are misguided.
California's Governor Gavin Newsom proposes an amendment to the US Constitution that would impose gun control regulations: Raising the federal minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21; Mandating universal background checks to prevent truly dangerous people from...
Gabby Giffords clearly calls for banning all guns
Gun control advocates usually don’t call for banning all guns even though that has been obvious to everyone else, but at least they aren’t hiding what they want anymore. The fact that they are pointing to Australia as an example where guns have been banned is...
Correspondence with 12 Gun-Control Advocates regarding Bet on Brazil’s Firearm Ban
Dr. John Lott contacted 12 prominent gun-control advocate academics, and he offered a $1,000 bet on if Brazil’s homicide rate would go up or down during the first two years of the bans that President Lula has implemented. Here are the records of the correspondence...
UPDATE: Michael Bloomberg’s Groups Blame John Lott for Mass Public Shootings in the United States
ORIGINAL POST February 16, 2023: Here are several Tweets by The Trace (February 14, 2023) (also here from January 22, 2023) and one of their employees who say Dr. John Lott in a "major reason" for mass public shootings. Lott responded to The Trace's tweet by...