New China, August 30, 2016
Considered one of the nation’s top opponents to restrictions on carrying firearms, Lott is also author of several pro-gun books, holder of a doctorate in economics, former researcher at Yale and other universities and a Fox News columnist.
“Why do people commit these mass public shootings? They do it to get media attention. They want to commit suicide, but they want to do it in a way that will get them attention and they know that the more people they kill, the more media attention that they will receive,” Lott said.
He cited crime research studies that show the trend continues of Americans feeling that guns make them safer, and also that U.S. residents prefer living in neighborhoods where residents are fortified with guns.
“I think that these polls go a long way to explaining why there is opposition to gun control laws that mainly disarm law-abiding citizens who obey the laws,” Lott said.
Lott recently provided testimony in Michigan’s senate judiciary hearings on allowing licensed holders to carry in gun-free zones, which he called a magnate for murderers.
“These killers seek out targets that they don’t believe can defend themselves so that they can kill as many people as possible. The faster that some one with a gun can arrive on the scene to stop the killer, the faster it is stopped.” . . .
The Daily Signal, August 29, 2016
The data on women and minorities should come as no surprise, said Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott, a noted economist and author of the recent book, “The War on Guns.”
“Women benefit more from having a gun than a man because of the large strength differential between a male-to-woman attacker compared to [a] male-to-male attacker,” Lott, the author of the August study, told The Daily Signal. . . .
The National Interest, August 29, 2016
A study by the Crime Prevention Research Center earlier this month found concealed-carry permits have boomed nationally, but particularly among women and minorities. “In eight states where we have data by gender, since 2012 the number of permits has increased by 161 percent for women and by 85 percent for men,” the report says.
From 2007 through 2015, concealed-carry permits issued by state and local governments increased about 75 percent faster among nonwhites than whites, according to the report.
Okafor noted that those living in the inner city “are the most likely to benefit” from self-defense.
“A lot of minority homes didn’t have father figures growing up,” Okafor told The Daily Signal. “The right to bear arms is a way to protect our community. Every weekend people are dying in cities riddled with gun control.” . . .
People’s Pundit Daily, August 28, 2016
By the way, if you’re wondering why Mr. French is so bold in his claim that Amy is likely to save lives with her concealed-carry weapon, that’s because John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center has crunched the numbers and determined that people with concealed-carry permits are about the most law-abiding group of people in the nation. . . .
Herald.net (Everett, Washington), August 26, 2016
According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, people who carry concealed sidearms for personal protection and are licensed to do so are among the most law-abiding groups in the country. That number has risen by 215 percent since 2007 to 14.5 million citizens. . . .
Independent Journal, August 29, 2016
Economist, gun rights advocate and author John Lott noted in a 2013 publication that “since at least 1950, with two exceptions, all the multiple victim public shootings in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed have taken place where guns are banned.”
Lott’s definition of a mass shooting excludes “multiple shootings that were byproducts of other crimes (e.g., a robbery or drug deal) or that involved gang activity.” . . .
Ammoland, August 29, 2016 (NRA-ILA, August 26, 2016 and America’s 1st Freedom, August 27, 2016)
Hubris appears to have caught up with Under the Gun in yet another episode of creativity run amok, this time regarding an alleged deletion of interview material featuring Dr. John Lott, well-known author of More Guns, Less Crime and a new book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies. Dr. Lott had spent approximately six hours being interviewed for Under the Gun. Prior to the film’s release, however, when Ms. Soechtig was asked whether her film featured any gun-rights experts (anyone besides persons “very strongly tilted towards gun control”), she confirmed that Dr. Lott had been interviewed but his input and information were not being used. “We did a great piece on him. He’s the originator of the idea that more guns equal less crime. His research has been criticized and largely discredited, and when we went to include it in the film, it felt like unnecessary real estate to put in the film…We kept going back to the idea that we wanted to reserve the real estate in the film for the responsible gun owners.”
As biased and unscrupulous as the “official” response on the exclusion of John Lott may be, it now appears that some Lott footage made it into the film, but was taken out after Michael Bloomberg allegedly insisted on its removal. According to a recent interview with John Cardillo, “They were going to run it, and Bloomberg and Couric had a private screening and after that screening” the Lott footage was deleted.
Dr. Lott’s newest book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies,identifies the probable explanation behind this adjustment of the “real estate.” Michael Bloomberg, founder of the Everytown gun-control group, and other gun-control proponents are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on producing false and misleading information because they have seen from polls that this makes a difference. They know that if they are going to win the gun debate, they must change people’s perceptions. For some hardcore supporters of the right to self-defense, these studies might not matter. But Bloomberg and others know that for the broad majority of Americans in the middle of the debate, bombarding them with false claims about guns can make a big difference. . . .
The Capitol Times (Madison, Wisconsin), August 28, 2016
Mortensen cited work by economist John Lott, Jr. In his 2016 book, “The War on Guns, Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies,” Lott writes that data from all 50 states from 1977 to 2005 shows murders were 49 percent higher and robberies were 75 percent higher in states with expanded background checks.
Lott is founder and president of Crime Prevention Research Center, a Colorado nonprofit that studies the relationship between gun policy and public safety. The center says it receives no funding from the NRA. . . .
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