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Responding to the New York Times’ piece claiming “That Assault Weapon Ban? It Really Did Work,” September 4

12 Sep , 2019  

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.

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Letters that we submitted

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Responding to the Chicago Sun-Times attack on concealed handgun

23 Sep , 2018  

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. . .

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Letters that we submitted

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Responding to an attack on a talk given in Minnesota

3 Mar , 2018  

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”).

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Fact Checking Bias, Letters that we submitted

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Again, the New York Times as a Fake News Site: Again cites false information from the Violence Policy Center

30 Jan , 2018  

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

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Our edited letter in Scientific American

20 Jan , 2018  

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 American decided to use.

GUNS AND CRIME

Melinda Wenner Moyer’s article “Journey to Gunland” ignores virtually all of the literature on right-to-carry laws and gun ownership since 1998.

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Debate, Fact Checking Bias, Letters that we submitted

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UPDATED: Letter in Scientific American and rebuttal by original author

10 Nov , 2017  

Scientific American recently ran a 6,000-word article claiming that more guns mean more crime.  Dr. John Lott wrote a letter responding to some of the many errors and the author wrote a response to his letter.  Here is Lott’s letter as well as the author’s responses and Lott’s responses to her.  …

Fact Checking Bias, Letters that we submitted

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Letter responding to attacks in the Los Angeles Times, Discussing President’s Election Integrity Commission

30 Sep , 2017  

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 the concerns of those worried about fraudulent voting.

“It might be a way Democrats can use a system they claim works very well to go and prove, essentially, to Republicans that there’s no fraud,” said Lott, who last year criticized the same National Instant Criminal Background Check System as a “mess.”

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Fact Checking Bias, Letters that we submitted

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Letter responding to Seattle Times’ article by Julie Wise’s piece “Trump’s election commission long on rhetoric, short on integrity”

29 Sep , 2017  

Julie Wise, the King County Elections Director, had an op-ed attacking Dr. John Lott’s testimony 

One particularly egregious presentation was given by Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center. Relying on data from 1996 to 2004, Lott made the case that citizens should have a thorough background check — like the one used for purchasing a firearm — in order to vote.

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Letters that we submitted

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Letter responding to Philip Bump’s “Let’s see what happens if we take the unserious background-checks-for-voters idea seriously”

29 Sep , 2017  

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 the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) works and he clearly never listened to my testimony to the Election Integrity Commission (“Let’s see what happens if we take the unserious background-checks-for-voters idea seriously,” 9/12).

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Fact Checking Bias, Letters that we submitted

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Replying to Christopher Ingraham’s attacks in the Wash Post on CPRC’s testimony to Commission on Election Integrity

27 Sep , 2017  

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 Ingraham’s piece:

John Lott, an independent researcher and Fox News commentator, is best known for his book “More Guns, Less Crime,” which argues that increases in gun ownership are associated with drops in crime (most mainstream criminologists reject this view).

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Christopher Ingraham, Fact Checking Bias, Letters that we submitted

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At Newsweek: Don’t Let Anti-Gun Activists Weaponize the Capitol Hill Riot

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Defensive Gun Uses Where People Legally Carrying Concealed Guns Have Stopped Crime, Cases From Early January to Late January 2020

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