Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new piece at The Federalist. A Democrat-controlled Congress authorized the president to give grants to states that have red flag laws, but never was he authorized to establish a federal red flag center. On...
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Audio of Lecture on Statistics at Lake Forest College
Dr. John Lott taught two classes on statistics at Lake Forest College on January 23rd. While the lectures weren’t recorded, the PowerPoint of Lott’s lecture is available here. Here is an audio of the lecture for the first class that Lott gave. (Tuesday, January 23,...
Video of Lecture at Lake Forest College on Gun Control
https://youtu.be/CwyJ7b3UkAI Dr. John Lott taught two classes on gun control at Lake Forest College on March 5th. This is a follow-up to his lecture on statistics on January 23rd. The PowerPoint of Lott’s lecture is available here (excluding the videos). A video...
Testimony before the Ecuadorian Congress on legislation for people to carry concealed handguns
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kxs8CjPZTPA Most of the Video is in Spanish Dr. John Lott testified before the Ecuadorian Congress’ Committee on Sovereignty, Integration, and Comprehensive Security regarding legislation to make it easier for people to carry concealed...
Teaching Classes on Statistics at Lake Forest College
Dr. John Lott taught two classes on statistics at Lake Forest College on January 23rd. While the lectures weren't recorded, the PowerPoint of Lott's lecture is available here. Here are pictures of the students in the two classes and the young woman who organized the...
At Real Clear Policy: The Truth About Mass Shootings
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Policy. . When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our country...
Talk from the Gun Rights Policy Conference: More Gun Control Myths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJrqey0d3I We will soon put up the video from the talk. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here, but the slides are also shown below.
At The Federalist: Do Gun-Control Groups Care What Really Causes Mass Shootings? Everytown Lawsuit Says No
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist on the lawsuit filed by Michael Bloomberg's Everytown. . The lessons from the Buffalo shooting are right in the killer’s manifesto, but gun-control groups like Everytown don’t care. . The Biden administration has already...
An Entertainment TV Show has a character saying single women should own guns: Hulu’s Class of ’09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq2uO1pKC4c The Crime Prevention Research Center has frequently written about how much more women benefit from owning a gun than men. Yet, seeing an entertainment television show acknowledge that essential point is shocking. In this...
At Townhall: Why Aren’t Female Victims of Domestic Violence Told the Best Way to Protect Themselves?
Kerry Slone will soon start as the new director of education for the Crime Prevention Research Center. On Monday, July 17th, Lance Logan brutally murdered 64-year-old Carolyn Williams in her Hartford, Connecticut, home while she was on the telephone with a 9-1-1...
At Townhall: Why Won’t the Media Admit When Mass Murderers Are Environmentalists?
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. . On Friday, a federal judge sentenced the El Paso Walmart mass murderer, who killed 23 people and wounded another 22, to 90 consecutive life sentences. He still faces additional charges from Texas, where he could receive the...
UPDATED: Compiling Cases where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped likely mass public shootings
This is a revised, updated version of a post originally written on April 21, 2015. We have most seriously updated this list starting at the beginning of 2020. UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: "Have civilians with...