Here is a very short clip of Hawaii Five-O trying to provide an example of a concealed handgun permit holder representing a danger to others. Other parts of the program show the permit holder as a real jerk and eventually stealing a gun from a police officer and...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper on the question of what type of immigrants we want to let into the US. The piece starts this way: Is it racist to say that you would prefer immigrants coming to the U.S. who are well-educated, skilled, and...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about claims that Dr. Lott is the one person who most angers the gun control community. (Tuesday, January 2, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
From an article at Fox News, December 6, 2017. You can see our research on this topic here and a long list of our publications here.
Congressmen Louie Gohmert gave a talk on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to discuss the false positive rate for NICS background checks. Out of 73,000 initial denials in 2010, there were only 42 cases referred for prosecution and just 13 convictions....
From the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California, which is located in Riverside County: It was the summer of 2016 when Steve Perkio, a retired construction worker with a love for the outdoors, walked into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department headquarters with his...
Mike Weisser has a new column in the Huffington Post: If there is one name which creates anger and hostility within the gun violence prevention (GVP) community, it’s not Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, it’s John Lott. His book, More Guns, Less...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about some of the new gun control laws that are going into effect around the country. (Tuesday, January 2, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:54 AM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about the federal legislation to have national reciprocity for concealed carry. (December 23, 2017)
These cases only involve instances where a civilian who is legally carrying a concealed handgun in public stops a criminal. Beaumont, Texas, November 26, 2017 . . . On Sunday around 9:15 a.m., Vidor Police were notified that the Louisiana State Patrol was chasing a...
Dr. John Lott talked to Heath Ledger on One America News about what could have been done differently to stop the Sandy Hook attack and also the legislation in Congress for concealed handgun reciprocity. (Thursday, December 14, 2017, 8 PM)
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by Turkish Television's World about the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook attack. The above video shows just a portion of the segment that was shown on TV. Lott's discussion that we need to learn the dengers of gun free zones was not...