The Wall Street Journal ran a lead letter that extensively discussed the Crime Prevention Research Center’s work. The letter appeared as follows:
…Regarding James P. O’Neill and Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s “Don’t Mess With New York’s Gun Laws” (op-ed, March 24): The authors say that “more than 230 concealed-carry permit holders in various states have been convicted of .
How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders, Letters that we submitted, Media Discussion on CPRC
Once again the New York Times is citing bogus data from the Violence Policy Center (VPC) (January 12, 2017).
…The grim truth is that concealed-carry permit holders are rarely involved in stopping crime. But people with permits have been responsible for more than 900 deaths that did not involve self-defense over the last decade, according to the Violence Policy Center.
How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders, Letters that we submitted, Violence Policy Center
Once again the New York Times is citing bogus data from the Violence Policy Center (VPC).
…But since 2007, concealed-carry permit holders have been responsible for at least 898 deaths not involving self-defense, according to the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety group. This includes 29 mass shootings by permit holders who killed 139 people.
How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders, Letters that we submitted, Violence Policy Center
John Lott has a new op-ed at the Daily Caller:
…Last week, a New York Times editorial shockingly claimed that American concealed handgun permit holders have been responsible for 763 non-self-defense deaths since 2007. The Times editorial cites these numbers as proof of the “myth of the vigilant citizen” and “foolhardy notion of quick-draw resistance.”
But the numbers they rely on from the Violence Policy Center are fatally flawed, quadruple counting legitimate self-defense cases as criminal murders and blaming suicides on permits when the suicides don’t even involve guns.
How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders, media bias on guns, op-ed, Violence Policy Center
John Lott’s newest piece at Fox News starts this way:
…. . . Gun control advocates just can’t accept the fact that concealed handgun permit holders are incredibly law-abiding. The New York Times’ recent attack on permit holders is typical. It is filled with triple-counting of legitimate self-defense cases. Murders or suicides by permit holders are blamed on guns, even when no gun was involved.
Comparing Police to Concealed Carry Permit Holders, concealed carry, How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders, op-ed, Police
A recent study provides numbers on police convictions over a three-year period from January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2007. This data was put together by doing news searches on media sources throughout the US. The problem with this method is that not all cases where police officers have been convicted of crimes will obtain news coverage, and the authors of this study undoubtedly missed even some of the cases that were reported. …
Comparing Police to Concealed Carry Permit Holders, concealed carry, CPRC original research, How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders, Police
The Violence Policy Center regularly puts out the claim that concealed handgun permit holders are a danger to themselves and others. Right now they claim that concealed handgun permits have been responsible for 636 deaths from the entire United States over almost seven years from May 2007 to March 2014. John Lott has pointed out errors in the VPC numbers for Florida, so here let’s take the errors in just one state Michigan.…
concealed carry, CPRC original research, How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders, Violence Policy Center
