The Wall Street Journal ran a lead letter that extensively discussed the Crime Prevention Research Center's work. The letter appeared as follows: Regarding James P. O’Neill and Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s “Don’t Mess With New York’s Gun Laws” (op-ed, March 24): The authors...
Month: March 2017
Interview in America’s 1st Freedom: “John Lott Q&A: Debunking Vox.com Gun Lies”
Dr. John Lott has an interview today with America's 1st Freedom on the false claims offered once again in at Vox. A headline at Vox.com last week read: “The Cincinnati nightclub shooting shows how more guns lead to more gun violence.” Since the idea that “more guns...
Zero tolerance craziness on guns: 5-Year-Old Girl Suspended From Kindergarten for Playing With ‘Stick Gun’
The video above is from Fox & Friends. The question is: Why do public schools so want to terrify students about guns? Here is the text of a short op-ed that Dr. John Lott wrote for the Los Angeles Times in 2001. The piece is as relevant now as it was then....
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Travel ban makes sense in some cases
Dr. John Lott's newest piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way: Last week, government officials banned most carry-on electronic devices from U.S.-bound flights originating in more than a dozen Middle Eastern and African countries. The reason was due to an...
North Dakota 14th State that allows carrying without a permit — Now covers 40% of entire US territory
On Friday, North Dakota's Republican Governor Doug Burgum signed legislation making their state the 14th that allows carrying without a concealed handgun permit. The bill had passed the legislature with overwhelming majorities (34 to 13 in the state Senate...
Recent Talks in Sonoma, California and Corpus Christi, Texas
Dr. John Lott has been giving multiple talks in March. One was on March 16th in Sonoma County, California to the Third Thursday group and another on March 24th in Corpus Christi, Texas at the Texas Lyceum. In both places, Dr. Lott talked about his latest book, "The...
Interview with America’s 1st Freedom: “Gun-Free Zones Are Targets”
Here is an interview that Dr. John Lott did with America's 1st Freedom: Discussion of so-called gun-free zones doesn’t make it onto the news much these days, so the truth can be hard to find. The reason why is simple: After high-profile shootings, the “mainstream”...
In the New York Daily News: NPR and PBS should not get public subsidies
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the New York Daily News on why NPR and PBS should not get public subsidies. It talks a little about NPR's biases in covering the gun issue. The piece starts this way: Whatever original purpose public broadcasting had back in 1969,...
Arkansas mandates that Public Universities. some bars, and government buildings allow permitted concealed handguns
Arkansas has become at least the 11th state that mandates that permitted guns can be carried on campus (Michigan requires that they be carried openly) and the 19th state that to allow them in state Capitols. For campus carry, the National Conference of State...
On Steve Gruber’s Michigan Talk Network to talk about bill protecting the interstate transportation of firearms
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about a bill by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) that will prevent anyone with a gun, ammunition, or magazines from falling outside of the law simply by passing through a state. A copy of the...
Even after being caught, CDC still hasn’t corrected accidental gun death data in database, causes errors by others
In January 2016, Dr. John Lott contacted the CDC to alert them to a mistake in their numbers for 2014 on accidental gun deaths. The total was clearly a 100 larger than it actually was (the error arose because of mistakes in Tennessee's data, and the mistake...
Responding to Bloomberg Group’s attack in the Minneapolis Star Tribune
On March 10th, Rachael Joseph, the Director of Outreach for Protect Minnesota and who works with Bloomberg's Everytown, had a piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune attacking Dr. John Lott. The piece was supposedly about Lott's op-ed on Stand Your...