Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News where he explains how to evaluate the Democrat’s reaction to Trump’s Supreme Court pick.
…Here is a simple rule of thumb: you can judge the caliber of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee by how angry the Democrats get. The smarter and more influential the nominee, in an important sense the more qualified they are, the angrier Democrats will get.
Dr. John Lott talked to KRLA’s Larry Marino about an op-ed that he had in the Orange County Register about using fact checker to filter fake news. KRLA is a large 50,000 Watt radio station in Los Angeles.
(Sunday, January 29, 2017)
Dr. John Lott talks to Charles Butler on his national radio show about the debate over concealed handgun permits and how permit holders stop terrorism.
(Monday, January 30, 2017 from 9:20 to 9:45 AM)
Dr. Lott’s book “The War on Guns” was reviewed in February 2017 issue of The American Rifleman.
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal. These are just a few of the nutty things in the new EU rules on gun ownership that were approved Wednesday by a Parliamentary committee. The full Parliament still has to vote on the bill. Below are the rules for nine European countries on whether they will allow police to carry off-duty. …
Besides the extensive coverage that we received in the Associated Press, here are some of the media attention that we received.
National Review, January 25, 2017
…Over at the Crime Research Prevention Center, John Lott Jr. notes that the number of “constitutional carry” states will reach 16 or 17 by the end of this year.
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Fox News on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday regarding Senator Jeff Sessions. Unfortunately, Senator Dianne Feinstein delayed the vote on Sessions citing concerns about his views on women. The piece below addresses the objections to Sessions views on women as well as other Democrat attacks.…
With the debate heating up in New Mexico over Michael Bloomberg’s push for Universal Background checks, Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the newspaper for the state’s capitol.
…Let’s say a stalker threatens a female friend of yours. She asks you if she can borrow your handgun. She is trained and has no criminal record.
background checks, Claim about 90 percent support for background checks, op-ed
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Daily Caller that discussed Jonah Peretti’s past of impersonating
…At the moment, media outlets want nothing to do with BuzzFeed, the “news” website that published unverified, “fake” allegations against Donald Trump. The allegations are so flimsy that even Trump’s political opponents never used them.
On January 10, 2017, the New York Times had an article claiming that both the public and their selective experts favored more gun control. From their article:
…The academics in our panel — many of the country’s best empirical researchers on gun policy — were far more likely than the general public to support gun control.
