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...
It has become an annual rite with the Violence Policy Center to release a report claiming, “Firearms 100 times more likely to kill women than protect them.” Last year, the New York Times and Vice carried the claims. This year, it made headlines at The Nation and...
Dr. John Lott has his newest piece in The Hill newspaper on fake news in the media. It starts this way: Time-after-time, the New York Times and other publications have repeated the same false claim that concealed handgun permit holders are dangerous. This claim will...
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...
Dr. John Lott talked to Michael Dukes on Anchorage's 50,000 Watt KBYR about the Ft Lauderdale shooting as well as a new Violence Policy Center report claiming that Alaska ranks number one in the nation in terms of the rate of firearm deaths. (Friday, January 13, 2017...
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...
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 Hill Newspaper reports on a "new" Violence Police Center (VPC) study (other publicity in the LA Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, among many others). A new study attempts to debunk the claim that gun owners rely on their firearms for...
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News on the New York Times reporting the latest Violence Policy Center claims starts this way: People walking the streets with guns pose a danger to others, right? With 12 million Americans across all 50 states now having concealed...
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...