There is little point in writing letters to the New York Times because no matter how egregious their errors, they don't print letters that point out errors in their articles. Still, it doesn't hurt to keep track of a few of their many errors. Of course, the Times...
This letter was submitted to the New York Times Dear Letters Editor: There’s a serious flaw in John Donohue and Theodora Boulouta’s claims about the 1994 assault weapons ban ("That Assault Weapon Ban? It Really Did Work,” September 4). There are few actual “assault...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News about the media attacks on the NRA and the Trump administration regarding their supposed hypocrisy over gun-free zones. The piece starts here: The news media love to criticize hypocrisy – at least by conservatives – even...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times that directly responds to false claims being made by Fact Checkers: President Trump thinks arming school staff and teachers deter threats. Surprise, media fact checkers from The New York Times to FactCheck.org...
After President Trump met with members of Congress this past Wednesday to discuss gun control, Linda Qui at the New York Times wrote a "fact check" explaining why what he said was wrong. Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News that illustrates how poorly done and...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News responding to all the false claims about how Australia's gun control laws are a model that the US should follow. This is from a much longer discussion in the book, The War on Guns, and see the data at the end of this post...
The New York Times on Sunday, February 18th, 2018 had an editorial attacking Dr. John Lott's research on crime by illegal aliens. Perhaps the most insidious part of the Trump administration’s approach to criminal justice lies in its efforts to link crime to its...
Letters in the February 14th New York Times: Response: Congresswoman Kelly wants one to believe that across Republican and Democratic administrations, across Republican and Democratic-controlled congresses, the incredibly low rate of prosecutions and convictions for...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the New York Times on some of the problems with background checks. The piece starts this way: With each mass shooting, calls rise from gun control advocates for tighter rules on firearms. The go-to policy prescription involves...
Last December 5th, the New York Times had yet another editorial making false claims about guns. The information from the Violence Policy Center has been recycled over and over again every few months by them. We have written numerous letters to the editor...
Bradford Richardson at the Washington Times had a long article based on an interview that he had with Dr. John Lott (words in bold were not in the original article). The CPRC has made these points before. The article in the Washington Times is as follows: . . . In...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Detroit News on how incredibly law-abiding concealed handgun permit holders are. This piece looks at recent claims by public health researchers that those who have guns tend to drive more dangerously. The piece starts this way:...