Dr. John Lott's latest op-ed in The Hill newspaper starts this way: A brand new PEW Research Center survey last week shows that gun ownership by households is up to 42 percent — an increase of 5 percentage points in the past four years. dYet, few mainstream media...
On January 10, 2017, the New York Times had an article claiming that both the public and their selective experts favored more gun control. From their article: The academics in our panel — many of the country’s best empirical researchers on gun policy — were far more...
Dr. John Lott has another piece at National Review about the New York Times continuing to disseminate clear false claims by the New York Times (though this could just as well be written about other publications such as The Hill): For the fourth time in less than two...
Once again the New York Times is citing bogus data from the Violence Policy Center (VPC) (January 12, 2017). The grim truth is that concealed-carry permit holders are rarely involved in stopping crime. But people with permits have been responsible for more than 900...
Once again the New York Times is citing bogus data from the Violence Policy Center (VPC). But since 2007, concealed-carry permit holders have been responsible for at least 898 deaths not involving self-defense, according to the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety...
This letter wasn't published, but it was sent to the New York Times after their article on a new Center for American Progress Claiming that gun laws reduce crime. Dear Letters Editor: The Times incorrectly describes a study as showing that gun control laws reduce...
The CPRC frequently writes letters to the editor at the New York Times to correct their errors, though unlike many newspapers the Times never acknowledges or corrects even the most egregious errors. Here are some of the errors in a piece over the weekend by Gail...
The New York Times continues its reliance on the Violence Policy Center's discussion about concealed handgun permit holders. since 2007, at least 763 people have been killed in 579 shootings that did not involve self-defense. The Times didn't take our letter to the...
John Lott has a new op-ed at the Daily Caller: Last week, a New York Times editorial shockingly claimed that American concealed handgun permit holders have been responsible for 763 non-self-defense deaths since 2007. The Times editorial cites these numbers as proof of...
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...
There are many errors in the New York Times on guns all the time. We regularly send letters to the Times, but they aren't interesting in correcting the errors. Dear Letters Editor: The Times erroneously asserts that over almost eight years there were 722...
The figure is from opencarry.org. Playing the typical hypothetical possibility angle, the New York Times story quotes one worried restaurant owner saying: “On some nights you have college kids wall to wall in here drinking,” he said. “You don’t want a gun in here.” No...