The Media Say Crime Is Going Down. Don’t Believe It. The decline in reported crimes is a function of less reporting, not less crime. [More]
Interesting, though, that it’s happening at a time of extended record gun sales…
Tag: John Lott
Since When Do They Have to Know What They’re Talking About?
Does Vice President Kamala Harris know what existing gun control laws are? Apparently, not. [More]
She doesn’t need to.
The prohibitionists aren’t really interested in “background checks.” It’s all just another step on the way to the end goal. The DSM is neither interested in nor qualified to educate those it works so relentlessly at deceiving. And forget the information gatekeepers doing anything but punishing “wrong thinking.”
It’s not like anyone dumb or corrupt enough to vote for Kamala is going to question or correct anything she says.
It’s why I constantly chide to share links. If we don’t do it, no one else will.
Point/Counterpoint
Playing the Percentages
Between January 1st, 1998, and October 25th, 2023, 52.5% of attacks used solely handguns, and 16.8% used only rifles of any type… [More]
That this is not what we are being told shows the agenda is prohibition and control, not public safety.
[Via Jess]
More Guns, Less Crime
Data posted at the Gun Violence Archive website shows 2023 produced fewer homicides, suicides, and gun-related injuries than in 2022, which indicates expansion of permitless carry laws, allowing more people to carry firearms for personal protection, did not result in more bloodshed as anti-gunners predicted. [More]
Someone ought to write a book with that title…
A Matter of Incentives
California’s New Unconstitutional Concealed-Carry Ban Hurts Black People And Women Most [More]
All true. But they’ll still vote Democrat because of wealth transfers, DEI benefits, feticide, and other leftist priorities.
And the laws never stop the ones who want to get and carry guns badly enough.
Popping Cherries
Gun crime expert blasts red state ‘cherry-picking’ by Yale professor in Senate hearing: ‘Political bias’ – Democrats have long claimed red states are more dangerous than blue states [More]
Take the wormy ones out and the rest of the bowl looks pretty good.
The Going Rate
America’s highest gun death rates are in the South [More]
In Democrat enclaves among Democrat constituencies…
We’ve discussed the rates misdirection before. Just don’t expect the subversives at the oxymoronically-named Center for American Progress, or cheerleading DSM narrative parroters to admit the gaslighting.
So if the problem isn’t guns per se, then what is it?
[Via Jess]
Calling All Comment Posters
Brady’s Astroturf Campaign To Skew The Comments [Watch]
Here’s my comment:
This proposed rule infrin ges on the Second Amendment.
As Edwin Vieira Jr. noted in Kolbe v. Hogan:
“This reliance on a permanent private market for firearms guaranteed that most militiamen, through their own efforts, could always obtain firearms suitable for both collective and individual self-defense, and forestalled tyranny by precluding rogue public officials from monopolizing the production, distribution, and possession of firearms.”
They gave me a tracking number to check back when it’s posted.
Have you made your views known yet?
UPDATE
John Lott explains how this will create a backdoor gun registry.
[Via Jess]
An Inconvenient Truth
Outside of so-called gun-free zones, which bar the legal carrying of firearms, over 63% of active shooting cases were ended by an armed civilian, according to the center. [More]
Well then, there’s only one thing to do.
Attack John Lott without actually refuting his work.
[Via Michael G]
A Numbers Game
Well, It’s a Marvelous Night for a Blood Dance
Do Gun-Control Groups Care What Really Causes Mass Shootings? Everytown Lawsuit Says No [More]
Only useful idiots believe citizen disarmament is about “gun safety.”
The violence monopolist string-pullers funding the groups love mass shootings because they make it easy to stampede the herd.
[Via bondmen]
The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God
Gun Free Zones Are Favorite Targets of Mass Shooters, Crime Research Group Says [More]
It’s called natural selection.
[Via Michael G].
Survey SAYS…
La-La-La We Can’t HEAR You…
Oregon Senate Democrats disinvited economist and gun rights researcher John Lott from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing based on criticism from anti-gun online publications. [More]
So hostile parties with skin in the game and who know the least about it get to determine who the “experts” are…
Oregon Democrats really are f*****g Maoists.
[Via bondmen]
But Their ‘Minds’ are Already Made Up
Dr. John Lott testified before the Michigan House Judiciary Committee about gun control bills, including licensing and universal background checks, Red Flag laws, and safe storage laws. [More]
Not that eye-rolling sharks smelling blood in the water ever let rationality interfere with a good feeding frenzy…
[Via Andy M]
Survey SAYS…
Armed American Radio Tonight
Time to crank up the porch space heater, pour two fingers of the good stuff and light a Maduro.
Go to the AAR website to listen/watch live streaming or to find a station near you.
Homicide Data Show No Justification for Blanket Citizen Disarmament
“Most counties experience no murders, a smaller set where there are a few murders, and then a tiny set of counties where murders are very common.” [More]
Guns aren’t the problem.
Oops, Our Bad
The “purchase delay” story has as happy an ending as can be expected when you consider all the prior restraint infringements.
“Ed” tells me via email:
Yesterday, Saturday, at around 4 pm, I received a call from [redacted] to inform me that he just received an email on behalf of “General” Bonta that it’s OK to release my HK! I arranged to pick it up later that evening and now have it in my possession…
…Notice, they CC’d the police but NOT to me, like it’s none of my business what they do related to me behind my back. And to date, still not a single response to my request for the documentation and so-called evidence they claimed to have, to which I, as “the accused” have a legal right to be presented with to see what the alleged “evidence” is that they used to make the libelous accusations of my “alleged criminal activity” and “firearms theft,” that they used to defame me…
…And, as ALL the guys that were there last night working the F/A counter told me about their customers having this same problem, I suggested that they tell those folks to look up your article and then contact AmmoLand to pass on their info.
Yeah, if it happens to you, let us know.
This appears to be yet another real-world example of those “false positives” the left viciously attacks John Lott for documenting. And the end of this story brings nothing to mind so much as Emily Litella realizing she’s wrong.
Ed’s just lucky Bonta didn’t deploy a shock team to confiscate what’s on his registration list. Just think how much more that will happen once Amalgamated finishes beta-testing its crystal ball.
We’re the Only Ones Underreporting Enough
Massive errors in FBI’s Active Shooting Reports regarding cases where civilians stop attacks: Instead of 4.4%, the correct number is at least 34.4%. In 2021, it is at least 49.1%. Excluding gun-free zones, it averaged over 50%. [More]
I’m sure that’s just an honest oversight and there’s nothing intentional, right?
Right…?
[Via Jess]
In the Final Analysis
So Much for Fidelity and Integrity
Study: FBI Undercounts Times Armed Citizens Stop Active Shootings [More]
Does it matter? You’ll note nobody’s hearing about this from CNN or The Washington Post…
[Via Jim S]
Survey SAYS…
In the more detailed breakdown of the results, Lott found that the greatest movement in the views of respondents came in the “Strongly Support” and “Strongly Oppose” categories. “Strongly Support” fell by more than half when more specifics about “red flag” laws were included; plummeting from 34% with the first question, to 14% with the more detailed second question. “Strongly Oppose,” meanwhile, climbed from 18% to 29%. [More]
Great. Now, who’s going to tell the public, which gets its disinformation from lying Democrats and the DSM (but I repeat myself) while truths like this are buried, suppressed, demonetized, and ridiculed?
[Via Jess]
Lies of Omission
CPRC Update
Evidence on how badly informed people are about guns and how that leads to support for gun control, Media bias after the Buffalo shooting, we were the statistical expert in a 9th Circuit win, Report on Concealed handguns saving police, and much more [More]
John Lott has been busy separating the truth from the lies. The least we can do is help share it.
Lies, Damned Lies…
But this “guns first” approach ignores a basic fact – over 92% of violent crimes in America do not involve firearms. Although Biden blames guns for the increase in violent crime, the latest data show that gun crimes fell dramatically. [More]
It’s almost like they have a hidden agenda or something…
[Via bondmen]
I Know the Feeling
The last few weeks have been busy responding to attacks on my vote fraud research in Public Choice. [More]
Me too. Blogging about that is what got me “unpublished” over at Blogspot necessitating the migration to this new site.
