Here are Hayley Geftman-Gold's two tweets that got her in trouble: “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing.” “I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun...
It has become an annual rite with the Violence Policy Center to release a report claiming, “Firearms 100 times more likely to kill women than protect them.” Last year, the New York Times and Vice carried the claims. This year, it made headlines at The Nation and...
Over the last few days, there have been a lot of attacks on Dr. Lott research after his testimony to the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. One of the common lines of attack has been that he testified in an area where he is not an expert. The...
An new study by John Donohue, Abhay Aneja, and Kyle Weber has received a lot of attention for supposedly finding some evidence that right-to-carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. It has been covered in Newsweek, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Vice, Snopes, and...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the New York Daily News on why NPR and PBS should not get public subsidies. It talks a little about NPR's biases in covering the gun issue. The piece starts this way: Whatever original purpose public broadcasting had back in 1969,...
Dr. John Lott talked about the Trump administration’s decision to roll back an Obama administration rule on background checks for gun purchases. The conversation explains how Obama's rule banned gun ownership by Social Security recipients who received help on their...
With the debate over gun-free zones heating up in the Wyoming legislature, Dr. John Lott has a piece in the Capitol city's newspaper, the Tribune Eagle. Lott was responding to a piece in the paper by Kerry Drake that had attacked Lott and the research from the CPRC....
Despite us emphasizing the Associated Press reporter with how incredibly rare any problems were with carrying guns at legislatures and noting that not one had been harmed in those cases, the reporter focused the very rare, minor problems that have occurred. The AP...
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Dr. John Lott had an op-ed in the Orange County Register on California Politifact's biases on the gun control issue. The piece started this way: . . . Take a couple of PolitiFact California’s two most recent evaluations concerning gun violence. • “Since the Sandy...
While the CDC has made some big mistakes exaggerating the number of accidental gun deaths, it is a common refrain that the CDC is missing out on accidental gun deaths for those under age 18. A new Associated Press report claims that the true number of accidental gun...
Dr. John Lott talked to Dana Loesch about claims made in the Katie Couric movie on background checks and the EPIX channel's announcement on Tuesday that they are no longer going to be showing her movie.
Katie Couric's gun control movie has gotten a lot of criticism for fraudulently editing a discussion with the Virginia Citizens Defense League. Just earlier today apologized today for the misleading edits. The link to EPIX is available here. The two might not be...