Kerry Slone, The CPRC's Director of Education, has an op-ed at Townhall. Apparently in New Mexico, it is acceptable to break gun control laws if the actions of the organizations benefit Governor Lujan’s plan to disarm New Mexicans. Recently, an organization called New...
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At Townhall: Do Absentee and Mail-in Ballots Make It Easier to Pay People for Voting?
Dr. John Lott has another piece up at Townhall. A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that, among voters who used absentee or mail-in ballots in November 2020, eight percent said they were paid or rewarded for voting. Both Biden and Trump voters claim they got paid for...
At Townhall: My Take On the Horrific UNLV Shooting
Amanda Collins Johnson, a fellow at the Crime Prevention Research Center, has her first op-ed piece at Townhall. Amanda's new book is titled: “Beyond Survival: Reclaiming My Life After I Survived Rape.” As I heard the news about a mass shooting at the University of...
At The Hill: Good guys with guns save lives. Don’t believe the hype.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper. Unfortunately, the editors made changes in my piece without my permission. The changed my statement of 94% of mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones to an "enormous amount." There were other similar...
At Real Clear Politics: Domestic Violence Protection Orders Don’t Pass Constitutional Muster
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the Supreme Court's case that will be heard in oral arguments today. How certain should we be that someone did something wrong before they lose their right to own a gun? Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a...
At the Wall Street Journal: How to Handle Domestic Violence and Gun Rights
Kerry Slone, CPRC's director of education, has her first piece at the Wall Street Journal on an important Supreme Court case that will have oral arguments on Tuesday. . You wouldn’t want to live next door to Zackey Rahimi. According to court documents, he...
At Townhall: Why Not Enforce Existing Laws Rather Than Push for New Gun Control?
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. With the mass murder of 18 people in Maine on Wednesday, gun control advocates are calling for more gun control laws. Right at the top of the list is a so-called Red Flag Law. Vice President Kamala Harris has already called...
At Real Clear Politics: SCOTUS Rules on ‘Ghost Gun’ Regulation
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published at Zero Hedge, Pintudeerah News, and News ND. On Monday, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court voted without comment to allow the Biden administration’s regulations on...
At the Federalist: Feds Want SCOTUS To Let Judges Strip Gun Rights, Even When There’s Been No Crime
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist on a Supreme Court decision on Monday. . The lower the threshold for taking away a person’s guns, the more likely it is that guns will be taken away from innocent people. . The Supreme Court has now received all the...
At the Washington Times: Second Amendment matters in a time of crisis: The importance of good guys with guns
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Washington Times. By the way, there was a kibbutz where civilians were armed and they were able to hold of the terrorist attack. . Hamas attacked as Israelis were wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish festival of Sukkot on...
At The Federalist: California Democrats Admit It’s Unconstitutional To Ban Gun Ownership
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist. . Gun control advocates keep telling us that there is 90-plus percent support in polls for expanded background checks, but the support is much less solid than the media and gun control advocates would have you...
At the Newsweek: Biden’s Gun Control Law Will Radically Change U.S. Gun Ownership
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new piece at Newsweek. . President Joe Biden keeps telling Americans that the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), the gun control bill he signed last year, is the most significant gun control legislative...