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  • Open elections? Be careful, Montana

    10/10/2024 11:51:25 AM PDT · by JohnRLott · 8 replies
    The Missoulian ^ | October 10, 2024 | John Lott
    Two constitutional initiatives to change how Montanans vote will be on the ballot in November, and both are deceptive. Two of them will help Democrats and ensure, ironically, despite supporters’ claims, that election winners are not likely to have a majority of the total votes cast. Supporters sell CI-126 as giving voters more choices in primary elections. Montana is already an “open” primary state where voters can choose whether they want a Republican or Democrat ballot, but this initiative would allow people to vote for a Democrat in one race and then a Republican in another one. These are called...
  • John Lott: Media Push Misleading Crime Stats To Protect Democrat Narrative

    09/19/2024 8:53:32 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind
    RCP ^ | 09/19/2024 | John R. Lott
    Crime is a major issue in this year’s election, yet major media ignored the release of a significant new government report showing a surge in violent crime. The increase in violent crime during the Biden administration is a record increase.The latest data released last Thursday from the Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) reveal a sharp increase in violent crime under the Biden-Harris administration compared to when Trump left office.During the debate, Mr. Muir noted: “President Trump, as you know, the FBI says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.” But Mr. Muir would have been...
  • Democrats are hiding the rise in violent crime with tricky statistics

    08/13/2024 11:07:34 PM PDT · by JohnRLott · 33 replies
    NY Post ^ | August 13, 2024 | John R Lott Jr
    Between 2016 and 2020, violent crime fell by 17% under Trump — and soared by 43% under Biden between 2020 and 2022. Of course, news outlets routinely assert that Americans are mistaken in believing that violent crime is rising. But Democrats and the media don’t understand the difference between the number of crimes reported to police and the total number of crimes.
  • MakeOregonGreatAgain. MOGA!MAGA Event So. Oregon Sat.6/22

    06/21/2024 3:17:31 PM PDT · by AuntB · 20 replies
    JCOR ^ | Jackson county republican party
    Get Ready to Ignite Southern Oregon at MOGA 2024! Join us on June 22nd for an electrifying event hosted by the Jackson County Republican Party. Featuring keynote speaker Mike Lindell, alongside powerhouse voices like Joe Hoft of The Gateway Pundit, Andy Pollack, Dave Douquette, John Lott, Donna Kreitzberg, and Sarah Phillips of the Young Republicans of Oregon. Experience the energy as local Republican leaders and top MAGA & America First candidates take the stage, amplified by the soul-stirring performance of Nashville recording artist, Mark Mackay
  • New Report Confirms Brad Raffensperger’s Office Committed a Crime in Jan. 2021 (Trump's Phone Call Was Illegally Recorded)

    03/09/2024 1:33:04 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 43 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | March 9, 2024 | Jim Hoft
    On Thursday Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist confirmed our reporting from February last year. A new book from Mike Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman admits that a widely misunderstood phone call, on which Willis’ political prosecution rests, was illegally recorded. That means the entire prosecution could crumble with defendants having a new avenue to challenge Democrat lawfare.
  • Updated information on Mass Public Shootings from 1998 through October 2023

    01/16/2024 1:22:05 PM PST · by PROCON · 10 replies
    crimeresearch.org ^ | Jan. 12, 2024 | John R. Lott
    When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our country has experienced a staggering 650 mass shootings,” President Joe Biden claimed last year. After a shooting in Lewiston, Maine in late October, CNN said that there had already been “586 mass shootings” that year.These statements give an incorrect impression that there are massacres every day, like the infamous 2022 Uvalde shooting, which claimed the lives of nineteen students and two teachers,...
  • The Truth About Mass Shootings

    01/13/2024 12:52:46 PM PST · by rogerantone1 · 8 replies
    Real Clear Policy ^ | January 13, 2024 | John R. Lott Jr.
    When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our country has experienced a staggering 650 mass shootings,” President Joe Biden claimed last year. After a mass murder in Lewiston, Maine in late October, CNN said that there had already been “586 mass shootings” that year.
  • Firearms expert taunts pro-gun control academics with bet on rising crime

    05/23/2023 9:25:36 PM PDT · by JohnRLott · 13 replies
    Fox News ^ | May 23, 2023 | John R Lott Jr
    Gun ownership increased sixfold under former Brazilian President Bolosonaro, homicides dropped 34% A gun expert is asking academics to put their money where their mouths are and bet $1,000 on Brazil as a case study that stricter gun laws won't mean less crime. No one has taken him up on the bet yet, but some have hit back by calling the challenge a "stunt" and saying they will put cash up if the terms meet their requirements. Brazil took a hard turn away from gun ownership with a new left-wing presidential administration this year, sparking a debate on whether Brazil’s...
  • FBI data on good guys with guns called ‘garbage’ as critic finds many more cases

    03/21/2023 6:57:07 AM PDT · by Twotone · 19 replies
    Washington Times ^ | March 20, 2023 | Stephen Dinan
    Mercedes Perez crashed her car into another car on a San Antonio street in 2021 and then jumped out with a gun and blazed away at neighbors who came out of their homes to see what happened. She killed one man, the car’s owner, and wounded his wife and son before another neighbor heard the shooting. He grabbed his gun and ran to the scene, where he killed Perez with a shot to the neck. John Lott, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said it’s a case of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with...
  • Despite California’s Mass Shootings, Biden Wants To Emulate Its Gun Laws

    03/15/2023 1:50:15 PM PDT · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 16 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 03/15/2023 | John R. Lott Jr.
    President Biden traveled to Monterey Park, California, the site of a mass public shooting that left 11 dead in January, to announce new executive actions on gun control. He touts the proposals as necessary “to reduce gun violence and make our communities safer.” But California already has all the gun control laws that Biden put forward, and yet it has a higher per capita rate of mass public shootings than the rest of the country. Measures already in place include background checks on all transfers of firearms, “red flag” gun confiscation laws, and an assault weapon ban. Even if Biden’s...
  • There Is No Firm, Sustained Support for Gun Control

    03/09/2023 6:30:18 AM PST · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 18 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 03/09/2023 | John Lott & Thomas Massie
    frequent talking point in the gun control debate is that Americans overwhelmingly support "common sense" gun control measures, such as universal background checks and red flag laws. The Biden administration referenced these surveys last month, when it announced that $231 million will go to states that enact "red flag" laws and push gun control policies. These surveys are constantly invoked in legislative hearings and in the media. But surveys often compress complicated bills down to one-sentence summaries, and the results are often unreliable. Gun control advocates claim that over 90% of Americans support universal background checks, which would require checks...
  • If There’s A Theme To Extremism-Related Murders, It’s Environmentalism

    03/03/2023 7:46:04 AM PST · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 2 replies
    the Federalist ^ | 03/02/23 | Dr. John R. Lott
    Relying on a new report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), news headlines claim: “All 25 U.S. extremism-related murders last year were linked to right-wing extremists.” The report received wide, uncritical coverage from outlets in the U.S. such as the Associated Press and worldwide in Canada, the United Kingdom, and India. But the ADL’s report is fatally flawed. It assumes that every racist is automatically a “right-winger.” For example, 10 of the 25 extremist murders last year were by Payton Gendron in Buffalo. But he was anything but a “right-winger.” The Buffalo killer was yet another mass murderer motivated by environmentalism.
  • No, Biden's Push For Red-Flag Laws Won't Keep Anyone Safer

    02/22/2023 9:40:44 AM PST · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 7 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 02/22/23 | Dr. John R. Lott
    If a person is really a danger to himself or others, confiscating guns isn’t much of a solution. There are so many other ways for disturbed people to cause harm. But advocates of “red flag” laws want people to believe that simply taking away someone’s legally-owned guns means the problem is solved. Last week, the Biden administration announced it was using part of the $1.8 trillion massive spending bill passed after last year’s election to give $231 million to states that enact red-flag laws and push other gun-control policies. After last week’s mass public shooting at Michigan State University, gun-control...
  • MSU Shooting: The Blame Game

    02/17/2023 9:24:02 PM PST · by JohnRLott · 17 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | February 27, 2023 | John R Lott Jr
    If you believe tweets from Michael Bloomberg’s The Trace and its employees, I am “one major factor” why the U.S. hasn’t passed stronger gun control laws and thus, they claim, responsible for mass shootings in the United States. These are becoming regular tweets after each mass public shooting. They are upset that I have quoted mass murderers on their decisions to target gun-free zones. Yet, statements such as, “Areas where CCW are outlawed or prohibited may be good areas of attack” are common among mass murderers. That doesn’t make sense to gun control supporters. Immediately after this week’s shooting at...
  • The “Crazy, Right-Wing Shooter” Myth

    12/07/2022 7:24:45 AM PST · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 7 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 11-6-22 | Dr. John R. Lott
    If you only read the New York Times editorials, you’d believe that political violence in America is a “right-wing” problem. The Times has been warning of violence from the right for years, but on Nov. 19 and 26, they wrote two long editorials making these claims. The violence stems from the lies “enthusiastically spread” by Republican politicians. Democrats’ only complicity was their $53 million in spending on “far-right fringe candidates in the primaries.” The fringe candidates, it was hoped, would be easier to beat in the general election. Both editorials mention the mass murderer in Buffalo, New York, as a...
  • Biden Again Wants to Ban Semi-Automatic Guns. When Will Fact-Checkers Apologize?

    11/30/2022 9:02:47 AM PST · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 26 replies
    Townhall ^ | 11/29/2022 | Dr. John R. Lott
    “The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick,” President Biden claimed on Thanksgiving Day. “It has no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.” With mass public shootings in just the last week in Colorado and Virginia, people naturally want to do something to stop these attacks. But semi-automatic guns provide critical self-defense benefits. After each shot, a semi-automatic gun reloads itself. A single-shot gun, by contrast, requires manual reloading. This can prove a liability, especially against multiple attackers.
  • Majority of American Voters Rightly Concerned About Vote Fraud

    11/22/2022 11:46:49 AM PST · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 4 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 11/22/2022 | Dr. John R. Lott
    Watching the news, you’d be led to believe that vote fraud doesn’t exist in the United States. Since the election on November 8, news article after news article has simply dismissed any claims of vote fraud as “baseless” (New York Times and CNN) and “without evidence” (NPR, New York Times, and Washington Post). Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is lambasted for “stoking fears on mail-in ballots.” And the news coverage was no different after the 2020 election. But American voters aren’t convinced. A Rasmussen Reports survey from late September found that 84% of likely voters were concerned about election integrity...
  • When Protecting Criminals’ Rights Comes at the Expense of Victims

    11/14/2022 1:02:32 PM PST · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 2 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 11/12/22 | Nikki Goeser and John Lott
    It took four years and nine months before Nicolas Cruz was finally sentenced for the murder of seventeen people in the horrific Parkland massacre. So much of the legal system focuses on fairness to the criminal; but the damage to the victims and their families as they wait for trial is tremendous. Those who have to testify or give victim impact statements must continually think about what they will say at trial. There is also uncertainty about the verdict and whether the murderer will be punished. In the Parkland case, the victims were denied the closure of Cruz receiving the...
  • Since Dobbs Decision Leak, Violence Against Pro-Lifers Was Over 22 Times That Against Pro-Choicers

    11/07/2022 10:24:56 AM PST · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 14 replies
    Townhall ^ | 11/07/22 | John R. Lott Jr.
    After the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked on May 3rd, news reports blamed abortion-related violence over the summer on pro-life supporters. “[W]e have seen a steady rise in violence and harassment against providers from anti-abortion extremists who continue to be emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decision,” claimed Melissa Fowler, Chief Program Officer of the National Abortion Federation (NAF). "People want me dead’: abortion providers fear violence after Roe overturned,” a headline in The Guardian read. Other news outlets, such as NBC News, also focused on the increased threat of violence against abortion providers. But national news...
  • Media Spin on Gun Control Doesn’t Match Voters’ Opinions

    10/06/2022 1:49:39 PM PDT · by VictimsRightsPro2a · 6 replies
    RealClear Politics ^ | 10-05-2022 | John R. Lott Jr.
    Red flag laws are the top priority of Democrats and gun control advocates. Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly support these measures – by margins ranging between 2-1 and 3-1. Congress recently passed legislation providing funding for states that adopted these laws. But the polling doesn’t really gauge whether Americans understand how these laws operate. The surveys generally just ask people if they support laws that “allow guns to be temporarily confiscated by a judge from people considered by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others.” Respondents might reasonably assume that a normal legal process is being followed,...