In Episode 15 of Season 6 (March 22, 2018), Chicago Fire shows scenes where a man's ammunition is set off by a fire. Bullets shoot everywhere, seriously wounding both the man's mother and a fireman. (If you don't mind increasing NBC's estimated number of people who...
Here is YouTube's new policy: “YouTube doesn’t allow content that encourages or promotes violence or dangerous acts that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death...” said a letter from Youtube to Spike’s Tactical that the gun manufacturer posted on...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Hill newspaper on the bias of fact checkers and the impact that they have on the gun control debate. Fact checkers are out of control, and on the issue of guns they no longer even try to pretend impartiality. Especially on social...
Politifact's Jon Greenberg claims: "NRA's Loesch cherry-picks terrorism deaths in France to argue against assault weapon ban." They rate the claim as "mostly false." On ABC News’ This Week Dana Loesch had this to say: Loesch: "France had a higher casualty rate in...
Politifact's Jon Greenberg claims: "Florida lawmaker repeats dodgy claim about crimes by cops vs. concealed permit holders." They rate the claim as "false." This is in response to our research "comparing conviction rates of police and permit holders." The Florida...
Snopes.com recently fact-checked a post that we first put up in June 2015 and updated on January 7, 2016. This became an issue for them because a story that Fox News' Special Report that had run a couple years ago was getting circulated on Facebook after...
The gap between what audiences think of a movie and what top movie critics think of a movie has rarely been larger than for Bruce Willis' "Death Wish." In fact, it is numerically very difficult for that gap to be any larger. While only 8% of the top critics (and 14%...
Most reviewers of this movie can't help but mention gun control in their reviews. We have just had another mass public shooting in yet another gun-free zone, and gun-control advocates say that this isn't the right time for us to talk about letting people defend...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times that discusses CNN's very biased Town Hall on guns last week. The piece begins this way: Americans might be divided on the issue of gun control, but CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night only featured questioners who...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Hill that goes through all the miss information in last week's 60 Minutes program on CBS. It was one of the most biased programs on guns that we have ever seen, and that is quite an accomplishment. The piece starts this way:...
In a series of scenes that could have been written by Michael Bloomberg, Designated Survivor keeps making the case for expanded background checks. No intellectual argument or even an emotional argument is provided against the gun control claims, and those opposing...
NBC's The Blacklist showed real bias against guns in the segment titled "The Invisible Hand," Season 5, episode 13. The show starts off with a group of people accusing a maker of inexpensive guns of being a purveyor of death, that the cheap guns are only designed for...