https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8a2Kn2Yd0M According to CBS' NCIS LA, if only US guns weren't being smuggled into Mexico by greedy gun makers, Mexico wouldn't have a gun crime problem. Here is a piece on these very claims that John Lott had in the Wall Street Journal...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece on media bias at Real Clear Politics. Last week, the Biden administration promised gun control groups that it will soon roll out a massive push for limits on firearm purchases and other measures. President Biden reiterated that promise on...
This episode of CBS's FBI shows a public shooting at a quinceañera (a celebration of a Latino girl's fifteenth birthday) at a restaurant (S3 E4 Jan 24, 2021). A white supremacist did the shooting. The aggrieved father whose wife and daughter have just been murdered...
The notion that Mexican drug gangs are getting machine guns from the United States is absurd, but that is the claim in CBS's new show Coyote staring Michael Chiklis. Episode 5 shows an AR-15 as a machine gun and Chiklis is asked to figure out what happened to a...
On January 10th, an 11-year-old last shot seven people and then committed suicide at the Cervantes de Torreón elementary school in Torreón, Mexico. Ramos shot dead María Medina, a 50-year-old English teacher, last Friday at Miguel Cervantes School in Torreón,...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Wall Street Journal about Mexico's extremely high murder rate. Another month, another record number of murders in Mexico. For the first nine months of 2019, Mexico had 25,890 murders—almost six times as many murders per 100,000...
Ever wonder where Mexican drug cartels are getting all their weapons? After all, since 1972, the most power rifle that you can buy in the country is a .22 caliber weapon. Yet, Mexican drug cartels have grenades, grenade launchers, and fully automatic guns. We have...
In 2018, Mexico had 35,964 murders -- a rate of 29 per 100,000 people. Preliminary estimates for 2018 show a US murder rate of 4.9 per 100,000. And in the first seven months of 2019, Mexico is on track to set a new record of 20,058 murders, but this preliminary number...