John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: A new study in the American Journal of Public Health claims that the state of Connecticut’s 1995 gun licensing law has reduced firearm homicide rates by 40 percent. But this just released study gives academics a...
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CPRC on CNN to discuss the false claim that gun licensing reduced firearm homicides in Connecticut by 40%
Carina Storrs with CNN interviewed John Lott, and tried to get across the point that you can't cherry pick one law in one state when many places are changing their laws. Unfortunately, she left out the main point that even for Connecticut there was no real evidence...
Bloomberg’s School of Public Health Cherry Picked Claim that firearm homicides in Connecticut fell 40% because of a gun licensing law
The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University put out this press release on a paper by Rudolph, Stuart, Vernick, and Webster: A 1995 Connecticut law requiring a permit or license - contingent on passing a background check - in order to purchase a...
Correcting the record on David Hemenway’s claim that academics support gun control
David Hemenway wrote an op-ed that was originally published in the Los Angeles Times and then picked up in many other newspapers. The Los Angeles Times was unwilling to publish a letter that the CPRC sent in, but the Wisconsin State Journal did publish the letter in...
CPRC at Fox News: Gun control advocates taking a page out of global warming advocates’ handbook
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Gun control advocates this month took a page from the global warming activists playbook: the science is settled, so there is no need for debate. However, instead of actually reviewing the scientific literature on...
Bloomberg’s $50 million push for gun control this year, and why that is only the tip of problem
Bloomberg's promise to spend $50 million this year on gun control efforts is just the tip of the iceberg. As the NY Times reports it, this is 2.5 times the $20 million that the NRA has been spending a year on political activities. But that $50 million is really just a...
CPRC at Fox News: “Don’t believe mainstream media mistruths about firearms research”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: If we are to believe the mainstream media, the powerful NRA has used its political muscle to keep people ignorant of how guns impact our safety. They are supposedly to blame for the elimination of firearms...
CPRC at Fox News: Media cherry picks Missouri gun data to make misleading case for more control
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News discusses the forthcoming study in the Journal of Urban Health that has been getting a lot of media attention. His piece starts this way: With headlines claiming “Study Shows Gun Control Works,” media outlets such as CBS, MSNBC,...
CPRC on KMOX to discuss new studies funded by Bloomberg on school shootings and Missouri
John Lott appeared on the Mark Reardon Show on KMOX to discuss new research funded by Michael Bloomberg on schooling shootings and Missouri ending its universal background check rules for handguns. The audio of the interview is available here (KMOX, Thursday, February...
Media Bias on guns: Interview on Jim Bohannon Show discussing Bloomberg, ABC News, and the media
The interview during the first hour of the Jim Bohannon Radio Show is available here (10:05 to 11:00 PM EST, Tuesday, February 18, 2014). For the original pieces that generated the discussion see here: • Errors with Bloomberg on school gun shooting stats • Errors with...
What does Missouri show about the benefits from universal background checks?: Nothing really. Notes on the forthcoming Journal of Urban Health study by the Bloomberg School of Public Health
There has been some attention given yesterday and today about a study coming out from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University: Repeal of Missouri's background check law associated with increase in state's murders Missouri's 2007 repeal of its...
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM for 2 hours (Audio)
CPRC was on George Noory's radio show last night for the first two hours of the show (3.25 million weekly listeners). Among the topics: the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals case striking down California's concealed handgun law, the big push to scare Americans into not...