Below is the post from the Independent Women's Forum. They also have the post there in Spanish. Gun control hurts women. You won’t hear that from professional anti-gun groups like Handgun Control, Inc. They are using women and manipulating the facts to get the...
Dr. John Lott has a piece with Holly Sullivan, the president of the Connecticut Citizen Defense League, on violence against women and the poor advice that women are usually given to protect themselves. . On this past Tuesday night, Ewen Dewitt brutally murdered...
Navy Captain Henry Herbig IV clearly planned to murder his estranged wife and stepdaughter. His plans had been carefully written out in extensive notes left in his car. But Herbig's plans didn't work out has he thought. But Herbig never got a chance to fully carry out...
Let us help out Michael Bloomberg's Everytown. For a group that claims to know a lot about guns, they apparently aren't familiar with one of the best selling books ever from the University of Chicago Press: "More Guns, Less Crime." There is also information from the...
Brazil has the highest murder rate of any developed country, so it isn't surprising that people want to do something to protect themselves. "Right-wing" presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro won 46% of the vote in the first round election this past Sunday, massively...
Jackie Ortiz (played by Nadine Velazquez), the wife of a Seal Team Six member, asks her husband, Ricky Ortiz (played by Juan-Pablo Raba) to teach her how to use a handgun for self-defense after his family was threatened by Islamist militants. She explains that she is...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal: Each year brings a new record increase in the number of concealed handgun permits. The rate of growth in permits among women and minorities has far outpaced growth among white men. The data paint a picture of...
In 2013, LA Weekly obtained a list of the 341 concealed carry permit holders in Los Angeles County, California. That is only about 0.0045% of the 7.7 million adults living in the county in 2013. As of January this year, there were only 226 permits, about 0.0029% of...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Washington Times: Protection orders are pieces of paper that can only do so much to keep women safe from violent men. But at the end of March, Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe vetoed a bill that would allow domestic...
Given the Santa Barbara killers' hatred of women (though 4 of the 6 people killed were men), it is understandable that the topic of violence against women would be discussed. Not too surprisingly, despite the fact that half of those killed were killed by being...