Dr. Lott talks about the tragedy in Virginia Beach when an employee murdered 12 co-workers and injured others. The #2 operations building was a gun-free zone for employees. Nobody inside the building was allowed to have a gun for self-defense, yet the murderer brought...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News on the gun control push for suppressors. Despite what you might believe from watching television shows or movies, suppressors (commonly known as “silencers”) do not make guns “silent” — unless you consider an ambulance siren...
Dr. John Lott talked to Jim Bohannon on his national radio show about the mass public shooting at a Virginia Beach Municipal Building occurring at yet another place where the victims were banned from protecting themselves and what can be done to help prevent something...
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio show about whether we should make firearm suppressors illegal and about the Virginia Beach attack. (Wednesday, June 5, 2019, from 5:35 to 5:45 PM) Lars Larson’s National show is listened to by over 1.25 million...
Dr. John Lott discusses the mass public shooting at a Virginia Beach Municipal Building occurring at yet another place where the victims were banned from protecting themselves and what can be done to help prevent something similar from happening in the future. Also...
Dr. John Lott had a book review at Claremont Review of Books on Patrick Charles' Armed in America and David Harsanyi's First Freedom. Although the new books on gun ownership by Patrick Charles and David Harsanyi both focus on a wide swath of English and U.S. history,...
A Shield agent, Melinda May (played by Ming-Na Wen), is asked by a villain whether she doesn't have a gun because she also doesn't like guns. May responds that she has never needed them in fighting bad guys. Examples from television where the characters say that they...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com on the Virginia Beach shooting. The employee handbook info regarding employees being banned from having guns is available here. Another horrifying attack and immediately gun control politicians and organizations are...
“When someone gets shot by a gun with a silencer, it’s quiet. Witnesses might not hear. Police will be less likely to track down the shooter.” — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), in a tweet, March 14 Virginia Governor Northam and Senator Tim Kaine are calling for a...
[Originally posted on Saturday, June 1] Another horrifying attack and immediately gun control politicians and organizations are calling for more gun control laws. Former VP Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former...
The video here shows a very small part of a segment from Doctor Who, which shows how badly things go wrong when you use guns to try to neutralize deadly threats. Here is a paragraph from a review in IndieWire which briefly summarizes the whole segment (copyright...
Americans got a timely reminder about Obama's views on guns. Last Thursday, he addressed a large Brazilian audience about American gun laws. Obama claimed: “Our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon, any time, without much, if...