Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist on the lawsuit filed by Michael Bloomberg's Everytown. . The lessons from the Buffalo shooting are right in the killer’s manifesto, but gun-control groups like Everytown don’t care. . The Biden administration has already...
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Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety will spend $3 million just to train people to run for political office
From the New York Times: The gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety plans to spend $3 million to recruit and train its volunteers to run for office, with a goal of having 200 enter races in the next election cycle.The program is the latest step in a yearslong...
Michael Bloomberg group pours $2.5 million into a low-profile North Carolina’s lieutenant governor race to defeat Black Republican Mark Robinson, ten times what Robinson spent
A group funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg spent $2.5 million to support the Democratic candidate for North Carolina’s lieutenant governor. By contrast, the Republican who he tried to defeat, Mark Robinson, spent $234,088. Robinson beat his Democrat opponent by...
Michael Bloomberg’s Gun Control Groups are Running Ads for the November Elections, but they aren’t focusing on Gun Control
Unlike the NRA, Michael Bloomberg's gun control organizations have depended on a few billionaire donors, notably Bloomberg himself. But what is most notable in this election is that while they spent about $26 million by the middle of October, they have stayed away...
At the Washington Times: How the liberal media, with Michael Bloomberg’s help, are biased against guns
Dr. John Lott has a piece at the Washington Times on how Michael Bloomberg biases the discussion about guns. Would Scientific American ever pay an NRA employee to write news articles about gun control? Never. But they and many other media outlets have no problem using...
At Real Clear Politics: News Outlets Turn a Blind Eye on The Trace’s Anti-Gun Bent
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. NPR, Politico, Time, and Scientific American are unlikely ever to pay an NRA employee to write news articles about gun control. But they have no problem hiring people who work for The Trace, a Michael...
At Fox News: How Bloomberg’s 2015 Racist Remarks Are Riddled With Inaccuracies
Dr. John Lott talked to Harris Faulkner on Fox News (Tueaday, February 11, 2020, from 1:15 to 1:20 PM) about Bloomberg's claim: “95 percent of your murders — murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take the description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all...
Michael Bloomberg: “it’s the job of law enforcement to have guns and to decide when to shoot,” not the “average citizen”
After the West Freeway Church of Christ shooting near Fort Worth, where concealed handgun permit holders stopped a mass public shooting, Michael Bloomberg warned that the average citizen shouldn't be carrying guns. “It may be true that someone in the congregation had...
New York Times reporter demonstrates the anti-self-defense political bias in the media
A New York Times reporter, Ted Alcorn, who used to be the research director for Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown is all excited that there is a big push for more gun control. It is interesting that he secretly subscribes to our email list. Note political bias: -- Refers to...
Democratic Pollster Doug Schoen explains why gun control will be the unifying theme for Democrats in the 2020 election
If you ever wonder why Michael Bloomberg is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into gun control research at the same time that he spent $110 million last year on just federal Congressional races and even more on state legislative races (and it also doesn't count...
Senior staff links their work at Dick’s to gun control advocacy, “Dick’s Sporting Goods Sales Hit by Tougher Stance on Guns,”
While other outlets such as Walmart haven't seen a slow down in gun sales, the same thing wasn't true about Dick's Sporting Goods after their decision to hire lobbyists for gun control. During the spring, this became public: The sporting-goods chain is working with...
Bloomberg’s Everytown Spending $5.8 million to defeat Congresswoman Karen Handel in Georgia
Congresswoman Karen Handel is facing a challenge from Lucy McBath, but she is facing some pretty incredible campaign spending numbers. Year to date donations by Bloomberg's Everytown for this race. Canal Partners Media: $1,840,250.00 Siegel Strategies,...