Presumably, it was just a matter of time. Places such as the NFL have banned off-duty police from carrying guns at their games, even though there has never been a safety problem with an off-duty officer carrying at a game and they have been doing it as long as there...
Dr. John Lott talked to Todd Meyer on Indianapolis' WIBC about what people should be looking for in judging the opposition to Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court. (Saturday, February 3, 2017 from 1;35 to 1;46 PM)
With New Hampshire's state House overwhelmingly passing Constitutional Carry, the bill his headed to Gov. Chris Sununu's desk for his signature. Sununu has already promised to sign the bill. The bill passed the state House by 200 to 97 after passing the state Senate...
In a piece last Friday in the News Sentinel (Knoxville, TN), Mark Harmon, a professor of journalism at the University of Tennessee and a member of the Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee, had an article attacking Dr. John Lott and the Crime Prevention...
Daily Post (Los Alamos, New Mexico), February 6, 2017 Persons supporting this bill have have argued that this bill would prevent violent gun crimes. Let’s look at the crime statistics from states that have adopted similar legislation. Dr. John Lott Jr., found in his...
Dr. John Lott talked to 20 members of the Polish Parliament and some staff with representatives from the three largest political parties. The hour and 42 minute presentation dealt with the general relationship between guns and crime (the translation was not...
Florida is considering a bill that would strength its Stand Your Ground law. One mother in Florida whose son was killed in a shooting is using that horrible incident to argue that Stand Your Ground laws should be reformed, though her son's death was neither caused by...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Investor's Business Daily on the congressional votes to end Obama's ban on some retirees owning guns. The piece starts this way: Do you know anyone who has decided to let someone else manage their finances? Just before...
With the moves last year by Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to give voting rights to 200,000 felons in his state and Maryland last year giving the right to vote to 40,000 felons after then are released from prison, the push by to give felons voting rights has been...
Dr. John Lott talked to hosts Cheryl Todd & Dan Todd about psychiatrists not being good at identifying those engaged in mass public shootings, banning gun ownership for some Social Security recipients, and that gun control advocates really want to ban guns....
Dr. John Lott joined Lars Larson to discuss Judge Neil Gorsuch's appointment to the Supreme Court. (Friday, February 3, 2017 from 7:20 to 7:27 PM) Lars Larson's show is listened to by over 1.25 million people.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review that responds to a recent op-ed that Heather Mac Donald had in the Wall Street Journal where she blamed Chicago's crime problems on President Obama's policies. Last week, President Donald Trump again expressed concern...