Cheaper Than Dirt! customers who tuned into C-SPAN’s Washington Journal on Saturday, April 25 from 7:45 to 8:15 a.m. got to hear Shooter’s Log Contributor and President of the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) Dr. John Lott Jr. discuss recent developments on gun laws and legislation. Here is a follow up. After that appearance, he wrote on the CPRC’s webpage: “I was originally supposed to appear with someone from Bloomberg’s Everytown for an entire hour, but as Bloomberg’s people consistently do, they refused to be on the show with me. Instead, they were on immediately after me from 8:15 to 8:45 a.m.” He added, “Many times I have gotten calls from TV producers asking me to be on a TV show, only to be disinvited once the Bloomberg people say that they won’t go on with me.” He said, “Given how often self-defense advocates have to deal with Bloomberg’s groups, I thought Shooter’s Log readers might find this exchange of interest. At the end of my appearance, I followed the producer’s advice and directly raised the issue of Bloomberg’s research director’s refusal to appear on the show at the same time that I did.” (That part of the discussion occurs at 28:30 into the 29:40 video below.) Lott said, “As you will see, when a caller asked Ted Alcorn of Everytown why he wouldn’t appear alongside me, he didn’t directly answer the question.” In the clip below @2:00, Alcorn instead blames gun-rights advocates he might have to debate for seeking to “minimize the issue of gun violence” and “draw attention away from the real issues…, ” and for him “that’s not a conversation that I think it’s productive to be a part of.”

Do you agree with Mr. Alcorn that it is unproductive for him and other Everytown representatives to appear side by side with John Lott? Help us decode the reasons behind Everytown demanding solo media appearances in the comments section.