John Lott - The War on Guns

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

New research on the massive errors in the FBI’s active shooting reports, Evidence that the strongest supporters of gun control are the least well-informed, the dangers of gun-free zones, and much more [More]

Funny– I didn’t hear about any of this at CNN or in The New York Times…

[Via Remarks]

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

Two factors explain this discrepancy – one, misclassified shootings; and two, overlooked incidents. [More]

And in both cases it’s deliberate.

[Via Michael G]

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.

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