Dr. John Lott had a new op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the truly massive amount of money that Michael Bloomberg is spending pushing gun control. If it wasn't for Michael Bloomberg's billions, there wouldn't be much of a gun-control movement. This year,...
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More Details on Michael Bloomberg’s demand that John Lott be excluded from Katie Couric’s movie “Under the Gun”
From America's 1st Freedom on September 5th: Shouldn’t journalists who want to tackle the issues related to illegal use of guns in America, and thereby help us find real solutions to violent crime in places like Chicago’s South Side, start by being honest? John Lott...
Breitbart: “Claim: Michael Bloomberg Demanded John Lott Interview Cut from Couric Gun Control Film”
This how the article at Breitbart starts: Radio host John Cardillo claims that interview segments with noted gun scholar John Lott were included in the earliest version of Katie Couric’s gun control movie Under the Gun, but were taken out at Michael Bloomberg’s...
CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: “Bloomberg Twists Gun Research To Political Ends”
John Lott's newest piece is on Michael Bloomberg's efforts to pollute the academic debate with false statistics. Michael Bloomberg keeps pouring $50 million into his Everytown organization to push gun control. That's just a portion of the money he's spending....
Bloomberg spends 1/13th as much money on two state Senate races in Virginia as the NRA spent on all campaigns during the entire 2013-14 election cycle
Between the end of August and the November election in 2014, the NRA spent $14.7 million. Over the entire election cycle they spent $28.2 million. By contrast, in just two state senate races in Virginia during just the last couple weeks before the election this...
How Bloomberg’s Everytown discusses gun-free zones: unable to debate the facts, they engage in false personal attacks
Gun-free zones are a serious problem. Shannon Watts, the head of Michael Bloomberg's Moms Demand Action, claimed that research that John Lott had done was "wrong and misleading" and that Lott was "debunked." When Lott responded...
News coverage on Bloomberg’s research director’s refusal to debate with John Lott
John Lott's and Everytown's research director separate presentations on C-SPAN on Saturday highlighted Bloomberg's groups continued unwillingness to debate. There have been about a dozen instances over the last seven or eight years where producers will call John Lott...
Elderly man fortunate Bloomberg’s gun groups didn’t convince Kroger to ban guns
Last year, Michael Bloomberg's gun control organization launched a "six-figure ad campaign" pressuring Kroger to ban guns on its property. The extensive campaign had "print and digital ads in USA Today, the Cincinnati Enquirer, Columbus Dispatch, Detroit Free Press,...
CPRC on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on people’s changing views on guns, Bloomberg’s research director explains why he won’t debate
From C-SPAN: "John Lott talked about the new study put out by Pew Research Center which finds that support for gun rights have increased and, for the first time, protecting gun rights is more important than controlling ownership." Lott was originally supposed to be on...
CPRC at Fox News: Why Michael Bloomberg’s latest push for gun control is all wrong
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Michael Bloomberg is spending tens of millions of dollars trying to convince state legislatures to support restrictive gun control laws. From television and newspaper ads, to blanketing communities with flyers, to...
Bloomberg’s Amazingly Inaccurate Ad to Keep Areas Gun-Free Zones
Bloomberg's argument here is that the bill to allow concealed handgun permit holders to carry on school property is really an attempt to let criminals carry guns around schools. The fact that people will need a permit that requires a criminal background check is never...
Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action makes false statement to Texas state Senators, claiming that there are no numbers on the behavior of permit holders
The bizarre thing here is that Moms Demand Action really thought that they could get away with their claim that there is no data available on how permit holders behave. Surely, Texas state Senators know what information is offered by the Texas Department of Public...