From Stossel TV: Dozens of news outlets reported that America has the most mass shooters in the world. Many say that shows America needs more gun control. CNN claimed that "the U.S. has the most mass shootings". The WSJ reported that "U.S. leads the world in mass...
Finally, Florida has moved to let teachers carry guns at schools. In an overwhelming vote, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission has recognized what the Crime Prevention Research Center has been arguing for years. This AP story was carried...
Dana Loesch's Relentless interviewed Dr. John Lott about the impact of concealed handguns on crime (see also here). They also discussed the problems with using justifiable homicides to measure defensive gun uses (see also here). (Wednesday, December 12, 2018, from...
Dr. John Lott talked to Joe Ligotti on Boston's WROL to talk about the dangers of gun-free zones. (Monday, December 10, 2018, from 5:35 to 5:46 PM)
People often link to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center page on Homicide as evidence to prove that gun ownership is a negative. If guns are on a net negative on safety, how come every single place that has banned guns (all guns or all handguns) has seen an...
From The Michael Dukes Show write up on our interview: Today we cover a slew of stories about misinformation surrounding guns. The fact that some politicians just choose to ignore the law when it comes to the 2nd Amendment and how the ownership of guns correlates to...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the twelve states that mandate people can carry guns on college campuses, 23 states leave it up to individual schools. (Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 6:45- 6:53 AM)
While the piece in today's Wall Street Journal focuses on the 15 known lawsuits that have been brought against a company that makes very inexpensive derringers, our numbers on the huge number of concealed handgun permit holders provide some context about how rare...
This has been a very busy news coverage the last couple of weeks with coverage in the Associated Press with stories in hundreds of news outlets, NPR, and our op-ed in the Chicago Tribune picked up in at least 17 other newspapers across the country. ...
Dr. John Lott was on Dana Loesch's Relentless to discuss data showing that concealed handgun permit holders are actually quite successful in stopping mass public shootings. (November 29, 2018)
(Click on Figure to Enlarge) On Thursday, May 4th, 2017, Georgia became the 12th state to mandate that public universities allow people to carry guns on campus. Following Arkansas, Georgia was the second state to pass campus carry in 2017. Ten other states have done...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about our new research on mass public shootings around the world. (Tuesday, November 27, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:54 AM)