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...
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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...
Do “more children die of bathtub drownings than of accidental shootings”? Yes.
Leonard Pitts, Jr. starts off his national newspaper column this way: Tucker Carlson said on Fox that more children die of bathtub drownings than of accidental shootings. They don't. Yet, Mr. Pitts is the one who is wrong. According to the U.S. Consumer Product...
CPRC on the Dana Loesch Radio Show to discuss new background check proposals and defensive gun uses
John Lott appeared on Dana's national radio show twice yesterday (Thursday, January 22nd, 2014 at 2:23 to 2:30 PM and 3:05 to 3:16 PM). The first segment discusses recent statements by media figures as well as a claim in Politico that defensive gun uses are a myth....
CPRC at Fox News: “The bias against guns: What the media isn’t telling you”
CPRC's John Lott has a new piece at Fox News that starts this way: Just two days before New Year’s, a 2-year-old accidentally shot and killed his mother at a Wal-Mart in rural Idaho. The victim was Veronica Rutledge, a 29-year-old concealed handgun permit holder. The...
CPRC on the Lars Larson and Dennis Miller Shows to discuss Media Matters and Police Policy
Here is the audio of John Lott on the Lars Larson Show on Monday, December 8th, 2014 from 6:35 to 6:44 PM EST. Here is the audio of John Lott on the Dennis Miller Show on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 from 2:05 to 2:30 PM EST. John Lott also appeared on the Sandy...
CPRC at Fox News: “Media Matters, the facts and me”
John Lott's newest piece starts this way: With just one telephone call this year, Erik Wemple of the Washington Post was able to convince Media Matters to let me respond to their attacks on me in the comments section of their website — after they ignored my emails,...