Monday, January 24, 2022 CPRC's Nikki Goeser talks with Cam Edwards of Bearing Arms, about her newest op-ed piece at Townhall titled "It Shouldn't Take a Bullet To The Head For The Criminal Justice System To Take Stalking Seriously."...
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On Chicago’s WIND-AM: Analyzing guns sales and crime rates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiLu9MacxAc Dr. John Lott talked with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago's top morning radio talk show on WIND-AM. They discussed the claim that increased gun sales were responsible for the rise in violent crime over the last two...
Changes in Crime and Killings of Police After Constitutional Carry Adopted
We have previously provided empirical work on the impact of Constitutional Carry Laws (download the paper here, and see particularly Table 3), but sometimes simple graphs that show the year-by-year changes are more convincing. With Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Indiana,...
Smart Gun Fails During Demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFBU6l2Qeg Despite the video being ended quickly, after the first round he kept pulling the trigger but the gun wouldn't fire. If you listen carefully, you can even hear the trigger making a clicking sound when he continued pulling it...
On KTIE Politics & Issues: Some California Legislators want gun manufacturers sued to put them out of business
Dr. John Lott talks with host Larry Marino about the efforts by some in the California State Legislature to pass laws making it easier to sue gun manufacturers. Saturday, January 15, 2022
Our Research on “Do White Police Officers Unfairly Target Black Suspects?” published in the journal Economics, Law, and Policy
People can download a copy of our research at the journal available here and at SSRN here. Abstract Using a unique data set we link the race of police officers who kill suspects with the race of those who are killed across the United States. We have data on a total of...
On Real America’s Voice: Biden’s rhetoric implies there are virtually no Democratic countries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYAubA2OpPE Dr. John Lott appeared on Steve Bannon's War Room to discuss Lott's piece in the Washington Times about how Biden and Democrat’s rhetoric implies there are virtually no Democratic countries. Lott made two main points: 1)...
At the Washington Times: Biden’s rhetoric implies there are virtually no Democratic countries
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Washington Times responding to Democrats' claims about Republicans being anti-democratic and totalitarian because of their support for voter IDs and other anti-fraud provisions. President Joe Biden’s extreme rhetoric in his...
In the Omaha World-Herald: Fears about carrying guns without permits are unfounded
Nebraska State Senator Tom Brewer and Dr. John Lott have an op-ed on the issue of Constitutional Carry in the Omaha World-Herald. Today Lott will be testifying before the Nebraska state Senate on the bill that Brewer is sponsoring. Gun-control advocates keep making...
On the Michigan Talk Network: With the For the People Act, Democrats, Not Republicans, Are the Real Threat to Democracy
Dr. John Lott talked with host Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about his recent opinion piece at Townhall "With the For the People Act, Democrats, Not Republicans, Are the Real Threat to Democracy." Friday, January 14, 2022, 8:35 to 8:37 AM
At Townhall: What Reporters should ask Biden about guns at his promised press conference on Wednesday
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall: President Biden’s remarks after the hostage situation at the synagogue in Texas leave more questions than answers..What were the motivations for the attack occur? A full day after a Pakistani Muslim attacked a synagogue on...
On WWNN South Florida’s Money Talk Radio Network: How Democrats are destroying Election Integrity
Dr. John R. Lott talked with host Nat Trager about how democrats of the past believed voter id's were needed, but the democrat leaders of today want to destroy election integrity. Dr. Lott explains in his recent piece at Imprimis titled Is Ensuring Election Integrity...