In 1998, when Dr. John Lott first proposed allowing teachers to be armed at schools virtually no one supported his idea. The op-ed that he had in the Wall Street Journal was not well-received. Still over the years, gun-free zones at schools have gradually been...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News responding to all the false claims about how Australia's gun control laws are a model that the US should follow. This is from a much longer discussion in the book, The War on Guns, and see the data at the end of this post...
Dr. John Lott was on the giant 50,000-watt KTLK' "Closing Argument" to discuss how gun control advocates keep pushing regulations that would do nothing beneficial to stop mass public shootings. (Monday, February 19, 2018, from 10:05 to 10:30 PM)
The New York Times on Sunday, February 18th, 2018 had an editorial attacking Dr. John Lott's research on crime by illegal aliens. Perhaps the most insidious part of the Trump administration’s approach to criminal justice lies in its efforts to link crime to its...
Dr. John Lott talked to Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on WIND in Chicago about what can be done to stop attacks, such as the one at the high school last week in Florida. (Tuesday, February 20, 2018, from 7:35 to 7:48 AM)
The data below show the changes over time in both deaths from shootings at K-12 through college and also deaths from mass public shootings. This data updates an earlier report that we had put out on deaths from school shootings in June 2014. Shooting deaths at...
After the Parkland School shooting in Florida, Dr. John Lott appeared on Fox Business's Varney & Company to discuss the mass public shooting and what could be done from changes in background check rules to getting rid of gun-free zones. They discussed whether some...
John Lott talked to Larry Elder on his national radio show about the true nature of gun violence amidst the Left’s calls for more control and regulation. (Friday, February 16, 2018, from 6:20 to 6:30 PM)
From an Investor's Business Daily editorial: . . . President Obama talked about it a lot, including in June of 2015, after a gunman shot nine people in a Charleston, North Carolina church: "Let's be clear: At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mitch Berg on his radio show to discuss Lott's book "The War on Guns." (Saturday, February 11, 2018, from 2:05 to 2:17 PM) Recently a news article in Minnesota noted how violent crime had hit a 50 year low in 2016 and that the state set a new...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mitch Carr on the giant 50,000-watt KRLD in Dallas to discuss the F (Friday, February 16, 2018, from 11:35 to 11:42 AM)
Letters in the February 14th New York Times: Response: Congresswoman Kelly wants one to believe that across Republican and Democratic administrations, across Republican and Democratic-controlled congresses, the incredibly low rate of prosecutions and convictions for...