ABC’s “The Bold Type” is about young women working at a magazine in New York City called Scarlet (think: Cosmopolitan). The program makes it very clear that a young woman (Sutton Brady who is played by Meghann Fahy) risks alienating her friends if she owns a gun. When her roommate (Jane Sloan played by Katie Stevens) finds out that she owns a gun, it isn’t a very pleasant conversation, with the roommate thinking that she is some unthinking conservative who doesn’t care about people’s safety.…
This video contains the audio of Dr. John Lott’s recent testimony before the Arkansas legislature on school safety. The video also contains the PowerPoint that was presented to the legislature.…
Dr. John Lott joined Brian Lilley on Ottawa’s giant 50,000-watt CFRA radio station to discuss the push to ban handguns in Canada. Lott pointed out how every single time all guns or all handguns have been banned there has been an increase in murder/homicide. There were 795,854 registered restricted firearms in Canada in 2015, though not all of those are handguns.…
Odessa American, August 11, 2018; The Spectrum (St. George, Utah), August 5, 2018; Sun Journal (New Bern, North Carolina), August 4, 2018; The Dispatch (Columbus and Starkville, Mississippi), August 2, 2018; Salem News (Salem, Ohio), August 11, 2018; Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah), August 3, 2018
…Economist John Lott wrote in 2014, “Black male teenagers were nine times more likely to commit murders than similarly aged white males.” And almost always the murderer of a young black male is another young black male.
Dr. John Lott was on the 50,000-watt WLW to talk whether the media’s constant emphasis on possible future violence against themselves will encourage attacks against them. The interview started off talking about how the media and politicians unfairly single out football’s concussion risk relative to soccer.
(Friday, August 10, 2018, from 9:06 to 9:22 AM)
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Dr. John Lott joined Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago’s WIND to talk about Chicago’s continuing crime problem. After murder clearance rates had declined from 67% in 1991 to 20% in 2016, they continued to decline to just 17.5% in 2017. It isn’t very difficult to explain why murder is going up with the continual drop in arrest rates.…
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com that the media has to realize that giving a huge amount of attention about possible violence against themselves makes that violence more likely. Mass public shooters do their attacks to get media attention, and the media is making it clear that violence against the media seemingly guarantees a level of coverage that can’t be attained by an attack at a mall, movie theater, or even school.…
The CPRC has compiled a list of states that allow teachers or staff to carry guns at school. After the Parkland school shooting in February, Florida passed a law mandating that all schools in the state hire police to guard their schools. Thirteen of the school districts in Florida are arming volunteer administrators, custodians, and other non-classroom staff members.…
Laura Ingraham cites on Dr. John Lott’s research on Crime by Illegal Aliens during her show on Fox News. A copy of the research is available here.
(Tuesday, August 7, 2018)…
Dr. John Lott talked to Michigan Talk Network about New York State threatening financial institution and insurance companies with ruin if they work with NRA.
(Tuesday, August 7, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:54 AM)
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