On May 22nd, the New York Times published an investigative report on mass shootings. It claimed that about three-quarters of mass shootings involved blacks. 86 percent occurred in zip codes “poorer than the nation as a whole.” But their data came from less than...
media bias on guns
CPRC on National Public Radio: Trying to discuss the problems with the Gun Violence Archive
National Public Radio did a report on the Gun Violence Archive, which collects cases of gun deaths and crimes. But there is a reason we should rely on FBI and CDC data before we rely on what Bryant has put together. You simply can’t use media reports to determine...
CPRC on NBC News: Discussing the change in gun laws since Sandy Hook Attack
NBC News, December 14, 2015. This is a very unbalanced article. No notion that gun control may make it more likely that people will be victims of violent crime. John Lott, a longtime gun researcher and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said that the...
New York Times again using the bogus Violence Policy Center data
The New York Times continues its reliance on the Violence Policy Center's discussion about concealed handgun permit holders. since 2007, at least 763 people have been killed in 579 shootings that did not involve self-defense. The Times didn't take our letter to the...
CPRC at the Daily Caller: “The New York Times Keeps Getting Its Gun Facts Shockingly Wrong”
John Lott has a new op-ed at the Daily Caller: Last week, a New York Times editorial shockingly claimed that American concealed handgun permit holders have been responsible for 763 non-self-defense deaths since 2007. The Times editorial cites these numbers as proof of...
Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham again cherry picks research and misstates what those studies show
The Washington Post's Christopher Ingraham has another new post on gun control (earlier ones here), where he is claiming that most people are wrong to believe that permitted concealed handguns make them safer. In this case, Ingraham is responding to a new Gallup poll...
CPRC on the CBS Evening News to Discuss the Public Health Approach to Gun Violence
John Lott talked to Jeff Glor on CBS's Evening News about guns (Thursday, August 27th, 2015, 6:45 to 6:47 PM). . . . John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of the book, "More Guns, Less Crime," says he does not buy the idea that...
Washington Post’s misleading article on “mass shootings” — falsely claiming “204 mass shootings” when virtually none of these cases qualify for the normal definition of “mass,” UPDATED: Response from Washington Post
Click on screenshots to enlarge. Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post has another article on guns. Unfortunately, Ingraham explicitly ignores the FBI's definition on mass shootings. The cases he ends up with involve very few murders and are heavily biased to...
CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Twisting statistics to smear cops”
John Lott's latest piece at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review starts this way: False claims about police brutality are poisoning race relations. This feeling of “unfairness,” as President Obama noted in his weekly address on May 16, is “fuel(ing) the kind of unrest that...
CPRC responds to New York Times editorial entitled “No Firing Pins, Please, as the N.R.A. Gathers”
The New York Times recently had this editorial: Seventy-thousand people are expected to attend the National Rifle Association’s convention opening on Friday in Tennessee, but they won’t be allowed to carry firearms in one of the main convention venues. This may run...
CPRC at Fox News: “Media misfire? Columbia J-school, Bloomberg unite to teach gun coverage”
Perry Chiaramonte's news article has this discussion of the CPRC and our survey that Gary Mauser oversaw of economists and their views on gun control: Critics who think the media has an anti-firearm agenda won't like the lineup behind a high-powered, upcoming seminar...
CPRC on Jim Bohannon Radio Shows to discuss the New York Times’ claims about concealed handgun permit holders
John Lott talked to Jim Bohannon on his show America in the Morning for a discussion of concealed handgun laws. This first clip is just 6 minutes long. Friday, February 20th, 2015 during the 5 AM hour. John Lott talked to Jim Bohannon on his widely listened to show...