Congresswoman Karen Handel is facing a challenge from Lucy McBath, but she is facing some pretty incredible campaign spending numbers. Year to date donations by Bloomberg's Everytown for this race. Canal Partners Media: $1,840,250.00 Siegel Strategies,...
Month: October 2018
At Real Clear Politics: The Problem With the FBI’s ‘Active Shooter’ Data
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on errors in the FBI's 'Active Shooter' data. Many people are focusing on the political biases in the FBI’s treatment of the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns, but the political corruption of the agency...
On the Vicki McKenna Show to discuss how Democrats want to make it more costly for the poor and minorities to own guns for protection
Dr. John Lott was on the Vicki McKenna Show that covers most of Wisconsin (WISN, WIBA, WMEQ) to discuss how Democrats want to make it costly for the poor and minorities to buy guns for self-defense. These are the very people who benefit the most from having the option...
The Rand Corporation’s dishonest report on gun control
The Rand Corporation reaches its conclusions on gun control by having its survey completely ignore studies that indicate that gun control is harmful. Their survey also inaccurately misstates the studies that they do reference. Time after time, their justifications for...
At Townhall.com: On CNN’s KFile and the Cost of Media Bias
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com on the incredible media bias shown by CNN. Andrew Kaczynski and the rest of CNN’s so-called KFile unit ought to count their reporting as direct campaign contributions to Democrats. Last year, in falsely accusing Sheriff...
On Minneapolis’ KYCR to discuss the massive amount of money that Michael Bloomberg is spending to flip control of the House to the Democrats
Dr. John Lott talked to Mitch Berg on Minneapolis' KYCR to discuss the massive amount of money that Michael Bloomberg is spending to flip control of the House to the Democrats. Much of the discussion was about the false ads that Gabby Giffords gun control organization...
On Dana Loesch’s Relentless: How has support for gun control changed?
Dr. John Lott was on Dana Loesch's Relentless to discuss the new Gallup Poll on support for gun control. While support for gun control has fallen by 6 percentage points since the immediate aftermath of the Parkland shooting, there has been a general increase over the...
A talk on some of the false claims made by gun control advocates
Dr. John Lott gave a talk at the Heartland Institute about false claims by gun control advocates on October 10, 2018. Some of our previous posts on these points can be found here and here.
Twenty killed in school shooting massacre in Crimea, wounds more than 65, 10 in critical, 5 in coma described as “extremely grave”
Unless you watch the news closely you likely missed the news that a day ago there was a very deadly mass public school shooting in Crimea. It will probably be another day or so until there is a good idea how many people were killed by eighteen-year-old Vladislav...
On the Michigan Talk Network to discuss how even after Kavanaugh’s confirmation, Democrats will control most of the Circuit Courts in the country
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network to discuss how even after Kavanaugh's confirmation, Democrats still control most of the Circuit Courts in the country and that they will continue to do so even if Trump was able to fill on the current...
At Townhall: Why O’Rourke’s Rhetoric on Police Shootings Is Wrong—And Dangerous
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com on the claims of systematic racism by police that starts this way: Would you describe police as the “new Jim Crow”? That is what Democrat Senate nominee Beto O’Rourke recently told students at Prairie View A&M...
Investor’s Business Daily: Kavanaugh: His Contentious Confirmation Won’t Be The Last One Like That
Dr. John Lott had an op-ed in Investor's Business Daily noting that we will continue to have confirmation battles such as Justice Brett Kavanaugh's. Judicial confirmations have become a blood sport, as the lengthy approval of Brett Kavanaugh showed. Wasn't it just...











