So much for the belief that Americans want something done on gun control. The Reason-Rupe survey questions whether support for background checks generally mean support for a specific law that expands the regulations. The vast majority of Independents and Republicans...
Month: May 2013
Newest piece at IBD: “Media Play Up Faulty Study Suggeting Link Between Guns, Death Rates”
John Lott's newest piece at Investors' Business Daily starts this way: Do fewer guns mean fewer firearm deaths? If you believe the March 6th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association of Internal Medicine, the answer is "yes." A study by Eric Fleegler...
Piece on Canada’s National Gun Registry: Canada sank $2.7 billion into a pointless project
John Lott and Gary Mauser have a piece in the National Review on the end of Canada's long gun registry. Despite spending a whopping $2.7 billion on creating and running a long-gun registry, Canadians never reaped any benefits from the project. The legislation to end...
Ann Coulter on “America’s Most Feared Economist”
Ann's newest piece starts this way: You can tell the conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred to as "discredited." Ask Sen. Ted Cruz. But no one is called "discredited" by liberals more often than the inestimable economist John...
CPRC Research
Multiple Victim Public Shootings Yale University Law School Working Paper, October 19, 2000. Lott, John R., Jr., Yale University Law School Landes, William M. University of Chicago Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Multiple Victim Public...