John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Are schools and colleges dangerous places, with lots of gun violence? Some groups paint a picture of these places being particularly unsafe. Supposedly both murders and firearm suicides are very common at...
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Michael Bloomberg’s two groups, Moms Demand Gun Sense in America and Mayors Against Illegal Guns claim that school shootings aren’t getting media attention
(Click on figure to make picture bigger.) Bloomberg's groups claim that shootings at schools are ignored and don't get media attention. Well, of 44 claimed cases the groups point to since Newtown, 24 of them were covered by USA Today. Five others were covered in at...
How has the number of people killed in non-gang, non-suicide shootings at K-12 schools changed over the last 20 years?
UPDATED INFORMATION is available here.. UPDATE: Problems with the Bloomberg claims on school shootings is available here. (Click on the figure to make it larger.) Using data from the National School Safety Center, Slate, and Michael Bloomberg shows a significant drop...
Evaluating Mother Jones’ “10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down”
The fact that federal court judges are citing Mother Jones' claims about guns as evidence, particularly for what is cited, is pretty disappointing. We were recently asked to evaluate Mother Jones'"10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down." Virtually all these responses were widely...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: On why gun control is becoming even more impossible to impose
The op-ed piece in the Inquirer starts this way: The new year has brought yet more gun-control regulations. President Obama announced new executive orders on background checks. Connecticut citizens stood in long lines to register their guns, and, next door in New York...
So are movie theaters near where the Aurora, Colorado killer lived posted to prevent concealed carry?
As many now know, the Cinemark movie theaters in Colorado ban permit holders from carrying their guns into the movie theater. The media mentions that the theater was "close to [the killer's] home," but where there other movie theaters? What...