Dr. John Lott and James Varney have a piece at Real Clear Investigations on the relationship between crime and immigration. The data used in the investigation is available as a STATA data set here. The regression output is shown at the bottom of this post. The piece...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqjq9dgGxRI In this segment of CBS's FBI Most Wanted, the FBI agents are surprised that a handgun was used in a mass public shooting, with one of the agents claiming that most mass public shooters use AR-15 style semi-automatics (Season...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUfsSHF3B24 Television show bias against guns is never-ending. Except for a couple of episodes on Paramount’s Yellowstone, you won’t see an entertainment television show with a civilian successfully using a gun defensively....
There have been a lot of false claims about Red Flag laws, and this piece by Dr. John Lott in The Washington Times explaining the errors in the logic. Gun control advocates would have us believe that confiscating people’s guns is the solution to all problems. Without...
Dr. John Lott joined Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin to discuss our latest research on violence against Pro-life and Pro-choice groups since the Supreme Court leak on May 3rd, 2022, which also gets extensive coverage on Fox News. The...
Dr. John Lott has another piece at Townhall. “The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick,” President Biden claimed on Thanksgiving Day. “It has no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp07tQDqqbI Immediately before the election, Democrats wanted to disown the notion of defunding the police. Well, it is back again. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) raises the issue of enforcing the types of gun control laws that he...
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Martinez on his national radio show about our new research on massive errors in the FBI’s Active Shooting Reports, undercounting the number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents. (Monday, October...
With the death of Cecilia Marshall, Thurgood Marshall's wife, the New York Times has an article on her life. Here is one interesting tidbit about blacks carrying guns for protection. She also accompanied defense lawyers on sometimes harrowing assignments to the...
The Crime Prevention Research Center’s latest annual report on concealed handgun permits was covered extensively at the Washington Examiner today. The gun craze sparked by the 2016 presidential election, the COVID crisis, and the flurry...
Here is a dramatic case where there is no way that this woman could have defended herself without a gun. A 23-year-old woman with a concealed-carry permit defended herself against four armed men who attempted to carjack her last week on the South Side of Chicago....
Dr. John Lott talked to South Florida’s Brian Mudd on WIOD-AM about Dr. Lott’s new piece at Real Clear Politics suggesting 'really biased' framing of poll questions greatly skews support for red flag laws: “Media Spin on Gun Control Doesn’t Match Voters’ Opinions.”...