Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill about how the media is completely distorting what Trump has said about Charlottesville. The piece starts this way: Has the media ever so deliberately and consistently misinterpreted what a president said? It certainly seems...
Dr. John Lott was on The Morning Show with Brian and Leland in Brownsville, Texas and central Texas to discuss Kevin Hassett's nomination to chair President Trump's Council of Economic Advisers. Unfortunately, the beginning part of this interview is missing where we...
West Wing Reads, July 31, 2017 Regarding historic Democratic obstruction, at Fox News, former U.S. Sentencing Commission economist John R. Lott writes that “Democrats have done everything they can to slow down all of President Trump’s nominees,”highlighting the case...
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has an editorial that spends a significant amount of space discussing our recent writings. The entire piece is worth reading, but here is part of it: Democrats like to say that they work for the little guy. How is it, then, that they seem...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News responding to the claims in the New York Times that communists in the former Soviet Union had better sex. But the policies that the Soviet Union set up to weaken the family have a much darker side. The move to single parent...
Kevin Hassett's confirmation to chair the Council of Economic Advisers is important not just taxes but also for a whole range of other issues, including crime. The Council of Economic Advisers touches on every issue that economists have done research on. From the...
As usual, these cases exclude ones where a store owner or a home owner uses a gun on their own property to defend themselves. There are so many of those reported in the news. What we aim for here are cases where people who are legally carrying in public use a gun to...
A frequent claim by gun control advocates is that the National Research Council (NRC) 2005 report, "Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review," has "debunked," "emphatically rejected," "disproved," or failed to support research showing that right-to-carry laws reduce...
Dr. John Lott was on the Steve Gruber Show to discuss how Democrats are making it difficult for poor people to defend themselves and the increased number of guns found in carry-on luggage at US airport. (Tuesday, August 8, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
Fred Kunkle at the Washington Post has a follow-up story on the seizure of guns at US airports and on our work on concealed handgun permits. A researcher has run the numbers on the record-setting number of guns found in carry-on luggage at airport checkpoints and...
Dr. John Lott talked to Scott Sloan on the big 50,000-watt WLW about his op-ed in the Chicago Tribune about how Democrats are working to have only the wealthy own guns as well as the coming congressional debate about concealed handgun reciprocity. (Wednesday, August...
Fox 5 DC interviews Dr. John Lott about DC Circuit Court's Decision Striking down DC's restrictive Concealed Carry law. Lott pointed out how DC is not letting the most likely victims of violent crime (Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 10:02 PM)