
Washington Post: Number of Guns Owned Doubled over 20 Years
On October 21, the Washington Post reported their estimate that the number of guns owned in America has doubled in the last 20 years.

On October 21, the Washington Post reported their estimate that the number of guns owned in America has doubled in the last 20 years.

When gun scholar John Lott met Barack Obama for the first time in 1996, he said Obama told him, “I don’t believe that people should be able to own guns.”

Everytown for Gun Safety researcher Ted Alcorn recently refused to debate Crime Prevention Research Center’s John Lott on CSPAN’s Washington Journal, but he assured viewers that his group is more than willing to debate any “credible scientist” who does not “minimize the issue of gun violence.”

On March 9, the Associated Press reported the results of a pro-gun control survey to show that Americans are losing interest in guns.

On February 11 The New York Times armed itself with a report from the Violence Policy Center (VPC) and went to war against concealed carry permit holders, associating said permit holders with murder and other crimes and raising the specter that concealed carry permit holders may actually be the “bad guys” with guns in a scenario where “good guys” with guns are promised.