Dr. John Lott discusses the mass public shooting at a Virginia Beach Municipal Building occurring at yet another place where the victims were banned from protecting themselves and what can be done to help prevent something similar from happening in the future. Also...
Dr. John Lott had a book review at Claremont Review of Books on Patrick Charles' Armed in America and David Harsanyi's First Freedom. Although the new books on gun ownership by Patrick Charles and David Harsanyi both focus on a wide swath of English and U.S. history,...
A Shield agent, Melinda May (played by Ming-Na Wen), is asked by a villain whether she doesn't have a gun because she also doesn't like guns. May responds that she has never needed them in fighting bad guys. Examples from television where the characters say that they...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com on the Virginia Beach shooting. The employee handbook info regarding employees being banned from having guns is available here. Another horrifying attack and immediately gun control politicians and organizations are...
“When someone gets shot by a gun with a silencer, it’s quiet. Witnesses might not hear. Police will be less likely to track down the shooter.” — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), in a tweet, March 14 Virginia Governor Northam and Senator Tim Kaine are calling for a...
[Originally posted on Saturday, June 1] Another horrifying attack and immediately gun control politicians and organizations are calling for more gun control laws. Former VP Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former...
The video here shows a very small part of a segment from Doctor Who, which shows how badly things go wrong when you use guns to try to neutralize deadly threats. Here is a paragraph from a review in IndieWire which briefly summarizes the whole segment (copyright...
Americans got a timely reminder about Obama's views on guns. Last Thursday, he addressed a large Brazilian audience about American gun laws. Obama claimed: “Our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon, any time, without much, if...
Dr. John Lott talked to Graham Ledger on One America News about the Crime Prevention Research Center's new research that schools that allow teachers to carry guns. We find that those schools that allow teachers to carry are extremely safe: data on the rate of...
Our recent research on school shootings has gotten an extensive editorial write-up in nine newspapers across Florida. Palm Beach Daily News, May 30, 2019; Florida Times-Union, May 30, 2019; Daily Commercial, May 30, 2019; St. Augustine Record, May 30, 2019;...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about Lott's research on the impact of Roe v Wade on a wide array of American society. Ever wonder why the 1970s saw what appear to be many contradictory changes? • A sharp increase in pre-marital sex....
The graphs and tables below allow you to see how the percent of adults with concealed handgun permits are changing in states from 2013 to 2018. On the top right of graph is a toggle that allows you set the graphs for any years from 2013 to 2018 or over a range of...