Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall.com on the decline in civility in politics. The piece starts this way: Politicians at Senator McCain’s funeral were bemoaning the loss of civility in politics, and Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing this week for the...
Dr. John Lott talked to Phil Cowan on KTKZ-AM in Sacramento about our new concealed handgun permit report. (Monday, August 21, 2018, 10:05 to 10:25 AM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Kathleen Antrim who was guest hosting for Alan Nathan on his national radio show about our new concealed handgun permit report. (Tuesday, August 22, 2018, 12:21 to 12:30 PM)
A must read: RealClearPolitics' Washington Bureau Chief has a very detailed article on a completely false and highly influential claim regarding distribution of mass public shootings around the world. Three years ago, which means it was before the mass murders at the...
Dr. John Lott was on the national Jim Bohannon show to discuss our new research on mass public shooting rates in countries around the world. (Monday, September 3, 2018, from 10:05 to 11:00 PM) Jim Bohannon’s show is listened to by over 2.75 million people.
Dr. John Lott was on the national Lars Larson show to discuss a recent report by NPR about the grossly exaggerated numbers involving school shootings and our own new research on mass public shooting rates in countries around the world. Of course, we have long pointed...
People with criminal records might also need guns for protection. Indeed, in at least some states, the primary reason that people apply to get their records expunged is so that they can again own a gun. Here is a rather shocking story of a woman who saved her life and...
Our attempts this week to put up ads on Facebook produced some disturbing results. Facebook treated a news link from Fox News and a link to our website very differently, even though both contained the same information. We have previously been prevented many times from...
National Review, September 4, 2018 I’ve previously discussed the research of Adam Lankford, who claims that the U.S. is home to nearly a third of the entire world’s mass shootings and blames our high level of gun ownership, and I’ve noted his refusal “to share...
Circa News has a story carried on Sinclair news sites on our new research on the rate of mass public shooters/shootings across countries. Their piece starts this way: In the gun control debate, it is hard enough to agree on solutions but often getting the facts...
Fox News is the latest to have a news article on our latest research comparing the rate of mass shooters across countries. The title of their piece is slightly off. They should have noted that we found the US made up less than 1.5% of mass public shooters. The Fox...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Daily Caller on the false news claims put out by groups such as the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The piece starts this way: Word leaked Thursday via The New York Times that Education Secretary Betsey Devos was...