Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times about liberals apparently Minneapolis and other major cities have finally re-opened, at least to looters and arsonists. For three days, police in Minneapolis and St. Paul were ordered to stand down as rioters...
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At Townhall: The System Has Failed People of All Races—I Know From Experience
The CPRC's Executive Director, Nikki Goeser, has an op-ed at Townhall that points out that while people focus on race, lots of other people have felt let down by the system. After you read this, if you live in Tennessee, you might want to email the governor and make...
At Townhall: Twitter’s Inconsistent Standards in Deleting Tweets from Trump to Kaepernick
The political bias by social media has continued. At the Crime Prevention Research Center, we have dealt with social media bias direction many times (see here for some of our posts). Here is Dr. John Lott's latest piece on political bias by Twitter. Twitter is not...
At Real Clear Politics: U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Is Inflated
Timothy Craig Allen, MD, JD and Dr. John Lott have another piece up at Real Clear Politics on the false numbers being put out on the number of Coronavirus deaths. Their piece starts this way. The latest Centers for Disease Control data show that the COVID-19 fatality...
At Townhall: Twitter’s Warning Label on Trump’s Tweet is Wrong
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about Twitter's new policy to warn readers that they think that Trump's tweet contained wrong information. Unfortunately, Twitter is the one who got the information wrong. Twitter is no longer willing to just let President...
At Townhall: The US is Dramatically Overcounting Coronavirus Deaths
As outlets such as the Washington Post have headlines like "As deaths mount, Trump tries to convince Americans it’s safe to inch back to normal," Dr. John Lott and Professor Timothy Craig Allen, MD, JD have a new piece. Over 86,500 people have reportedly died in the...
At Real Clear Politics: COVID-19 Danger at the Polls Is Exaggerated
Dr. John Lott had a new piece at Real Clear Politics on the continued push for mail-in ballots because of the Coronavirus “No Californian should be forced to risk their health in order to exercise their right to vote,” warns California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Last Friday,...
In the Toronto Sun and other Post Media Newspapers in Canada: Trudeau’s gun ban won’t make us safer
Dr. John Lott and Professor Gary Mauser have an op-ed in the Toronto Sun and other newspapers across Canada about Prime Minister Trudeau's gun ban. On Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau immediately banned the sale of 1,500 models and...
At Townhall: Wisconsin Shows That Mail-in Ballots Are Not Necessary to Stop the Spread of the Coronavirus
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com about the claim that we need mail-in ballots to stop the spread of the Coronavirus. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) warns that voting by mail is “at the time of the coronavirus, very essential.” In a federal court...
In the Minnesota Herald Review: Minnesotans should be wary of ‘mail-in votes’
Minnesota US Senate Candidate Jason Lewis and Dr. John Lott had an op-ed the push for mail-in ballots in Minnesota. Last month, United States Senator Tina Smith voted twice to hold up coronavirus economic relief. We need not speculate as to why Democrats delayed...
At National Review: California’s Ammo Background Checks Misfire
Dr. John Lott's latest piece at National Review is available here. California’s attempts to discourage gun ownership hit a bump Thursday. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez granted a preliminary injunction that stopped the state from enforcing its background checks on...
At the Washington Times: Using the COVID-19 pandemic to justify a gun ban
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times on the claims being made by gun control advocates during the Coronavirus. Despite all the claims that gun control organizations only want “reasonable” gun control laws, the coronavirus pandemic has revealed that...