On Monday, October 21st, Dr. John Lott will debate Pennsylvania state Senator Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery County) about Red Flag Laws and Universal Background Checks. The debate will be held at the Widener Law School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and will go from 4:30 to...
Year: 2019
On Salt Lake City’s KNRS: Discussing testimony before the state legislature on Red Flag Laws and Universal Background Checks
Dr. John Lott talked to Rod Arquette on Salt Lake City's KNRS about the proposals in the state legislature for Red Flag Laws and Universal Background Checks. (Thursday, October 17, 2019, from 8:05 to 8:18 PM)
On The Michigan Talk Network With Steve Gruber About Democrats Push to Have Felons Vote while they are in Prison
Dr. Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the push for Democrats to have felons vote even while they are in prison. (Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 8:35 to 8:44 AM).
New York Times reporter demonstrates the anti-self-defense political bias in the media
A New York Times reporter, Ted Alcorn, who used to be the research director for Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown is all excited that there is a big push for more gun control. It is interesting that he secretly subscribes to our email list. Note political bias: -- Refers to...
Testimony on Red Flag Laws and Universal Background Checks before the Utah Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee, Joint House and Senate committee
Dr. John Lott testified before a joint Utah House and State committee about Red Flag Laws and Universal Background Checks. The committee was the Utah Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee. Lott was introduced to the committee by Curt Oda, who served...
Learning about the CPRC’s Executive Director, Nikki Goeser
Here is a story from last year about the CPRC's Executive Director, Nikki Goeser. Role models: They are the ones who inspire us, ones who have faced the challenges in their life head on and attacked every single one. Nikki Goeser, a gun owner from Tennessee, embodies...
Bloomberg’s Everytown just makes up gun facts
Let us help out Michael Bloomberg's Everytown. For a group that claims to know a lot about guns, they apparently aren't familiar with one of the best selling books ever from the University of Chicago Press: "More Guns, Less Crime." There is also information from the...
German Synagogue Shooter shows futility of gun control, uses homemade guns in attacks
The number one goal of the 27-year-old man, Stephan Balliet, who attacked a synagogue in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, was simple: "1. Prove the viability of improvised weapons." While he killed two people outside the synagogue, his plans were thwarted when he couldn't...
At Townhall: Felons Voting While In Prison In D.C.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the push in Washington, DC to let felons vote while they are still serving their sentence in prison. The piece starts this way: Washington, D.C.’s council seems posed to let felons vote while they are still...
Might judge’s discovery overturn decades of ATF interpretation on what constitutes a “receiver”?
In a startling California case, the federal government dropped charges against someone who had been manufacturing and selling guns without a manufacturer's license. The news article claims that the federal government dropped the case because they were worried that the...
How badly does the media bias people’s views on the types of deaths from firearms?
A new survey from American Associate for Public Opinion Research shows that Americans are much more likely to think that mass shootings and other types of homicides make up a much larger share of total homicides than they do. The huge gap between how people think...
Eleven of Florida’s 67 School Districts are Arming Teachers
Eleven of Florida’s 67 county school districts have given classroom teachers the option to carry guns. Only seven of those eleven school districts have made their policy intensions public and they include: Bay, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Okeechobee, Putnam and...












