Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new op-ed at the Washington Times. Media bias has a huge impact on the gun control debate. The entire debate would be dramatically different if at least three points about mass public shootings ever got...
Dr. John Lott talked to Jim Bohannon on his national radio show about the mass public shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California and the continuing gun control debate. They also talked about the Democrat presidential candidates debating gun control on CNN in...
Dr. John Lott was on the Vicki McKenna Show that covers most of Wisconsin (WISN, WIBA, WMEQ) to discuss the Gilroy shooting in Santa Clara County, California occurring at another gun-free zone. (The Vicki McKenna Show, Monday, July 29, 2019, 4:35 to 4:50 PM)
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) comments about terrorism. The piece starts this way: As if Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) hasn’t already said enough controversial things, a new video surfaced this week of an old interview with her on...
Dr. John Lott is interviewed by One America News about our research on mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones and school shootings. Congressman Thomas Massie is also quoted as using statistics from our report on school shootings. (One America News, July 30,...
UPDATE: Governor Newsom: "This is insane. Only in America, only in America, here we go again." Yet, few seem to realize how much more common mass public shootings are in the rest of the world, including parts of Europe. An earlier similar study was published in a...
Nikki Goeser of the Crime Prevention Research Center discusses gun-control and the Gilroy California Festival Shooting with the UK's Sputnik News. Nikki explains the dangers of gun-free zones and other gun-control laws that prevent law-abiding citizens from being able...
Dr. John Lott gave a couple of talks at FreedomFest during the middle of July. C-SPAN is showing one of his talks several times. The video is available here.
MyNorthwest (Seattle, Washington), July 17, 2019 Gottlieb calls gun-free zones “counterproductive,” noting the vulnerability of people should a mass-shooting incident take place. He points to research from the conservative Crime Prevention Research Center, that...
Dr. John Lott talked to Gavin McGinnis in FreeSpeechTV about how Twitter locked Lott's account for tweeting factual statements about the New Zealand killer. For more information see here, here, and here. (Gavin McGinnis' Get off My Lawn, July 15, 2019)
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about recent comments by Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-Ca). Another day, another push for more gun control. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-Ca) used the seventh...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the national Train a Teacher Day that occurred this past weekend. (Michigan Talk Network, July 23, 2019, 6:35 to 6:45)