Dr. John Lott submitted a letter to The San Jose Mercury News about false claims made in a news article about U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez’s decision striking down California’s Assault Weapon Ban. The newspaper didn’t accept the letter for publication, but here is what was sent in.
…Dear Letters Editor:
Your article on U.S.
Dr. John Lott submitted a letter to The Wall Street Journal about false claims that James Carville made in an op-ed. The Journal didn’t accept the letter for publication, but here is what was sent in.
…Dear Letters Editor:
James Carville’s piece contains a big lie in its first sentence (“Democrats Are the Anticrime Party,” May 26, 2021).
Dr. John Lott submitted a letter to The Economist magazine about false claims that they made about Constitutional Carry (“Permitless-carry gun laws are misguided and should be scrapped,” May 8, 2021). The Economist didn’t accept the letter for publication, but here is what was sent in.
A copy of The Economist’s article is available here.…
The New York Times’ David Leonhardt claims that the move by states to provide protections against voter fraud is part of “the Republican Party’s growing discomfort with democracy.” Dr. John Lott submitted the following letter to the editor in response. Of course, the New York Times didn’t publish the letter. Our research on photo voter ID rules in other countries is available here and our work on absentee ballot rules is available here.…
While there were many other errors in Robyn Thomas’ piece on Red Flag laws, the Washington Post allowed Dr. John Lott a chance to respond to her criticism of his work. A data file with a list of all the state laws and there content is available here.
…Robyn Thomas’s April 25 Outlook essay, “Five Myths: Red-flag laws,” mischaracterized laws in ways that helped her advance the Giffords Law Center’s gun-control effort.
Letters that we submitted, op-ed, Red Flag Laws, Response to critics
There is little point in writing letters to the New York Times because no matter how egregious their errors, they don’t print letters that point out errors in their articles. Still, it doesn’t hurt to keep track of a few of their many errors. Of course, the Times didn’t publish this letter.…
This letter was submitted to the New York Times
…Dear Letters Editor:
There’s a serious flaw in John Donohue and Theodora Boulouta’s claims about the 1994 assault weapons ban (“That Assault Weapon Ban? It Really Did Work,” September 4). There are few actual “assault weapons” of any type in their dataset, either pre- or post-ban.
A Chicago Sun-Times editorial had the headline: “One brave rescue of a Cicero cop doesn’t justify concealed guns.” The Sun-Times continues to fight against the notion of permitted concealed handguns. Here is part of their piece:
…Hang your argument on a single anecdote, and you can defend almost anything. . .
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”).
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 to the New York Times, and we discussed with people at the Times.…
Fact Checking Bias, How law-abiding are concealed handgun permit holders, Letters that we submitted, media bias on guns, New York Times, Violence Policy Center
