Dr. John Lott's newest article at The Hill newspaper starts this way: Another mass public shooting in another gun-free zone, and yet again the media ignores it. Right at the front of the Waffle House restaurant in Antioch, Tennessee was a sign prohibiting firearms....
Dr. John Lott will be speaking at the NRA annual meeting on Sunday, May 6 from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, rooms D163 & 165. The title of his talk is: "The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against the False Claims...
Dr. John Lott's newest op-ed at the Daily Caller started this way: For those who may have forgotten, Barack Obama reminded many last week what made him such a polarizing president. In a Time magazine essay commending student gun control activists, Obama resorted to...
In Florida and New Jersey students have been punished for going to a gun range outside of school hours. In New Jersey this week, a school suspended two students who posted pictures of them going to gun range last weekend. A New Jersey school district that allegedly...
We have previously run into trouble with Twitter censoring our activity. Gavin McGinnis recently posted a Tweet linking to some of our research correcting false statements made by Vox.com on guns. But Twitter provided the following warning: So what does "sensitive...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about the Toronto SUV massacre and the Waffle House shooting as another gun-free zone. (Tuesday, April 24, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on WIND-AM in Chicago about the calls for banning AR-15s and other "assault weapons" and what about banning semi-automatic. He also talked about the danger of gun-free zones. (Tuesday, February 20, 2018, from 9:05 to...
Should teachers and staff at schools be armed? John Stossel and producer Maxim Lott made a video analyzing that question, and used CPRC research to do so. More information on concealed handguns at schools is available here. There are a couple of nitpicking points to...
Terrorist vehicle attacks with 4 or more fatalities are still relatively rare, though they are becoming more frequent. Radical Muslims committed 83% of mass public attacks committed up through the end of 2017. Including attacks where fewer than 4 victims...
On Sunday, April 22, 2018, 4 people were killed by Travis Reinking at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee. As is far too common, the Waffle House was a gun-free zone (pictures shown below). Waffle House has continued to have a gun-free zone policy. Here is a...
WRAL, April 12, 2018 African-American woman are one of the fastest growing demographics of gun owners in the country and they currently make up more than half of the membership for the National African American Gun Association, according to data provided by the group....
Dr. John Lott and Grant Stinchfield talked about a few of the lies about guns in America put out by German Lopez at Vox.com. A more detailed discussion is available here.