We have a lot of new research and more coming in the next few weeks. Have you heard the claim that murder rates are higher in the Republican states that Trump won in 2020 than the Democrat states that Biden won? It has been a claim repeated over and over again in the news media and confirmed by "fact checkers." A new piece at Real Clear Investigations points out how false the assertion is. The claim overlooked the figures for 2021, which were available when he made the claim, and they show the opposite. Even more importantly, the discussion ignores that policing, prosecutions, and judging are all determined locally, and in 2020, the Republican states had higher murder rates only because of the very high murder rates in the Democrat counties in those states. I discussed this on national radio shows with Lars Larson and Bill Cunningham and Philadelphia's Rich Zeoli (this last one turned out really well).
Other new research continues our work on vote transparency. Given the very close election in Arizona, we had a simple goal: match the number of voters who voted with the number of ballots cast. After elections, some people worry that ballots were counted multiple times (so that there could be more ballots cast than voters who voted) or that ballots disappear (so that there could be more voters who voted than ballots cast). We found that even under the most conservative assumptions, these discrepancies in vote counts were larger than the winning margin in the state's 2022 Attorney General race or that the counties simply can't say the number of people who voted.
We have also updated our list of cases where people legally carrying concealed handguns have stopped likely mass public shootings.
A couple of op-eds that I wrote deal with bizarre claims by Democrats regarding pistol-stabilizing braces. You have to wonder if Democrats know anything about the gun control laws they vote on. The claims are so far out that they must know that what they are saying is false. A piece that I had at Townhall discusses how the two leaders of the Senate Democrats say that we have to ban pistol-stabilizing braces because adding them to handguns turns the handguns into machine guns. Another piece at The Federalist points to Biden's nonsensical claims about the braces. Finally, a piece I have at the Washington Times is outside our normal research, but it explains why government regulations are responsible for the pilot shortage.
Hunter Biden has also provided us with a number of interviews. One interview with Vince Coglianese on DC's WMAL that is worth listening to drew on my experience as the chief economist with the US Sentencing Commission and my time at the US DOJ and discussed what criminal penalties Hunter Biden should be facing. My appearances on the Lars Larson and Bill Martinez national radio shows talked about Hunter's legal team threatening to use the Supreme Court's Bruen decision to declare that background checks are unconstitutional.
I also did several radio shows on California Governor Gavin Newsom's push for a Constitutional amendment to allow new gun control laws. I appeared on the Sebastian Gorka and Alan Nathan national shows and Los Angeles' big KRLA.
Entertainment television police shows continue to misinform millions of Americans about guns. NBC's Law & Order makes outrageously false claims about ghost guns. FX's Class of '09 about the FBI, NBC's Magnum PI, and CBS' True Lies continue the myth of criminals using machine guns.
We have also continued collecting cases where people legally carrying guns in public have stopped crimes. Here are the cases that we collected for April.
For information on activities at the Crime Prevention Research Center, here is a link to our “info deck.” Please view in full-screen mode and scroll using the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen.
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