John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: In what’s being hailed by many as a victory for gun-control advocates, the recent Supreme Court decision on “straw” purchases of guns has completely muddled the whole issue of background checks and “straw”...
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CPRC at Fox News: What liberal media won’t tell you: School shooting deaths down, not up, across America
The Fox News piece starts this way: Is there an epidemic of school shootings? Parents are understandably fearful, but their fear is unjustified. Schools are relatively safe places, and they have gotten much safer. While even one death is too many, the number of...
CPRC at Fox News: “Obama making up facts about guns”
The newest Fox News starts this way: President Obama just can't seem to help himself. Over and over again, he makes exaggerated or false claims about guns and crime. Last year Obama kept asserting the bogus numbers such as “40 percent of all gun purchases take place...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Killers seek gun-free zones for attacks
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...
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...