The newest piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way: The shootings last week at Seattle Pacific University and on Tuesday at a high school near Portland, Ore., both occurred at places that banned guns — gun-free zones. The shooting last Wednesday in Canada...
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Summarizing Some of Bloomberg’s false claims on guns
John Lott has a new piece on Bloomberg's push for gun control at The Daily Caller that starts this way: On “Meet the Press” earlier this month, Michael Bloomberg claimed that what he is doing “is nothing about gun control.” But host David Gregory, acting as a...
CPRC at Fox News: Media feeding frenzy over open carry guns in restaurants much ado about nothing
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: The NRA’s strong statement reprimanding a few people for carrying long guns into restaurants was bound to get media attention. Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action and much of the media quickly jumped in and described...
CPRC in the New York Post: Why psychiatrists fail in stopping mass killers
CPRC board academic board member Arthur Berg and CPRC president John Lott had a new piece in the New York Post on the limits of psychiatrists in stopping mass killers. Their new piece starts this way: . More money for mental health won’t stop these mass murderers. ....
CPRC at Fox News: Memo to gun-control advocates: Even Elliot Rodger believed guns would have deterred him
The newest Fox News piece starts this way: How can we prevent mass murderers? Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who killed six innocent people this past Friday in California, is causing everyone to ask that question, yet again. Rodger spent over a year and a half...
CPRC in the News: “A Reply to The Atlantic on the Death Penalty”
John Lott's newest piece at National Review Online's The Corner replying to a piece by Andrew Cohen at the Atlantic starts this way: Death-penalty opponents are engaging in a lot of hyperbole. As an example, in the Atlantic this past Thursday, Andrew Cohen went after...
CPRC: “Another Round in the Death-Penalty Debate,” Correcting mistakes in the Washington Post
On Sunday in the Washington Post, Radley Balko attacked a recent piece that CPRC's John Lott had on the death penalty. John Lott's piece that responds to Balko starts this way: The death-penalty debate goes on. After a piece that I wrote about the debate last week,...
CPRC at National Review: “The Shaky Case against the Death Penalty”
How far will death penalty opponents go to advance their cause? Our newest piece at National Review Online starts this way: After the recent mishandled execution in Oklahoma, in which the murderer ended up dying from a heart attack, death-penalty opponents pounced....
Mass shooting yesterday at FedEx facility in Kennesaw Georgia took place in yet another “gun-free zone”
UPDATE: John Lott's newest Fox News piece is on this: Media bias on gun free zones. The piece goes through errors in discussions by the Wall Street Journal on this shooting. Picture from the Associated Press Picture from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution When are news...
CPRC at National Review: “Bogus Gun-Control Numbers: To prove that concealed handguns are dangerous, the Violence Policy Center cooks the books”
How far will gun control advocates go to advance their cause? The newest piece at National Review Online starts this way: People walking the streets armed with guns are dangerous, right? With all 50 states finally allowing concealed handguns to at least some...
CPRC at Fox News: “What the press is missing in Bloomberg’s anti-gun push”
The newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Gun control has largely been a top down effort. Michael Bloomberg’s latest announcement that he will spend another $50 million to push gun control – 2.5 times the amount spent by the NRA annually on political activities –...
CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: “Michael Bloomberg, Gun Control And Fabricated Numbers”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: No doubt, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg passionately believes in gun control. To his credit, he puts his own money — tens of millions of dollars, and possibly much more — into...