Lott: Banning Guns is a Sure Way to Increase Homicide Rates

Banning guns might reduce firearm suicides and cases of self-defense, but it won’t reduce firearm murders. Indeed, a ban on guns, even a handgun ban like the ones we’ve seen in Washington and Chicago, inevitably makes things much worse. After every gun ban, murder rates have gone up. One would think that just once, out of simple … Read more

U. of Michigan Study Slants the Data With Adult Deaths to Claim a Spike in Children’s Firearm Mortality

By Salam Fatohi Figures don’t lie. Gun control advocates, however, will always figure a way to manipulate data to mislead the American people, hoping to trick them into supporting more Second Amendment restrictions. The most recent and preposterous example comes from researchers at the University of Michigan. They took liberties with the definition of “child” … Read more