As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. This episode of NBC’s Chicago PD (Season 8, Episode 8, March 10, 2021) has machine guns being used...
Dr. John Lott joined Vicki on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin to discuss the media bias on guns and the false claims put out by the Gun Violence Archive. (Thursday, January 21, 2021, from 4:35 to 4:51 PM) Vicki’s show covers most of Wisconsin (WISN, WIBA,...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. Some simple, obvious facts are too politically incorrect for academics to state publicly. Georgetown University just fired law professor Sandra Sellers and forced out professor David Batson. Sellers' offense? "I end up having...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by NTD about the bill to close the "Charleston Loophole" and the costs of Universal Background Checks. Other relevant information is available here.
Democrats don't like police. They don't view the police as the solution for crime. That is at least if you believe Perry Bacon's piece at 538 summarizing the current views in the Democratic Party. Interestingly, they don't include anything on gun control presumably...
With record gun sales this last year as police have been ordered to stand down and massive numbers of inmates have been released from jails and prisons, the importation of guns in 2020 also surged by about 60% over the previous year. With an estimated 22.8 million...
Gun bans don't ever seem to work very well. The New Zealand gun buyback started in June 2019, and over the next six month 50,000 guns were turned in, less than a third of the 170,000 semi-automatic weapons estimated to be in circulation in New Zealand. The buyback and...
Rayla Campbell interviews John Lott at CPAC about guns. He talks about how it is the most vulnerable who benefit the most from owning guns. (Thursday, February 25, 2021)
Nikki Goeser, the CPRC's Executive Director, was present for final passage of a bill that she inspired to create a lifetime order of protection. The order can be issued to a victim of certain felony offenses to prohibit the offender from coming about or communicating...
Sunday, March 7, 2021 (Hour 1)
Prominent economist and gun rights advocate John Lott said that the enhanced background checks contained in new House-passed measures would burden law-abiding citizens and not reduce crime. The House approved two bills on Thursday that expand background checks on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbsUiPn7psg On Thursday, March 11th, 2021, the House of Representatives passed two background check bills: Universal Background Checks (HR 8) and Closing the "Charleston Loophole" (HR 1446). Despite Democrats claims to the contrary, HR...