Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna about his recent piece in National Review about finalized new rules released just before Christmas by President Obama that Social Security recipients will be banned from buying a gun if they are deemed “financially incompetent.”...
Dr. John Lott engaged in a debate with fourteen others about whether teachers should be armed (eleven against versus four for it, not exactly balanced). None of the eleven people who oppose letting teachers carry guns have presented any empirical evidence on teachers...
Dr. John Lott appeared on the national Larry Elder Show to discuss Politifact's Claim that it is "Mostly True" that 7 "children" die a day from gun violence. A detailed discussion and links on the points raised in interview are available here. (December 29, 2016 from...
This year, Bloomberg got a background check initiative onto the ballots of Maine and Nevada. Given the supposed 90% support in polls for universal background checks and the massive financial support provided by Bloomberg, one would think that these initiatives in...
Dr. Lott's latest piece at National Review discusses Obama's finalized new rules that will ban Social Security recipients from buying a gun if they are deemed “financially incompetent.” Have you ever thought of letting someone else manage your finances? Under...
Sources for the graph available here and here (see the bottom of this page). See graph below. The percentage of cases cleared is obtained by dividing homicides cleared divided by total homicides (the sum of homicides cleared and not cleared). The latest clearance...
Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, ID) Lead story, December 29, 2016 . . . In December 2012, 85,535 Idaho adults had concealed weapons permits, according to a report published by the Pennsylvania-based Crime Prevention Research Center. As of December 2016, 131,665 Idaho...
If gun control advocates were more confident with their arguments, presumably they wouldn't have to so grossly exaggerate their numbers. On December 27th, 2016 Politifact evaluated this claim that there are 7 children a day who die from guns, and Politifact's Chris...
Here are (now) twelve more defensive gun uses by concealed handgun permit holders from across the country. Chicago, Illinois, (8200 block of South Ingleside, Chicago) December 30, 2016, Chicago Sun-Times A man with a concealed-carry license fatally shot a would-be...
With gun sales continuing to increase after the November 8th general election, many have pointed to the increase in gun sales to blacks, though the evidence has been anecdotal. NBC News contacted gun storeowners who reported seeing up to four times as many black and...
This article appeared on Monday, December 26, 2016: Despite an intense national focus on high-profile police shootings involving white officers and black men, a new study shows that white officers are not statistically more likely to shoot and kill a black suspect....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review on what the movie Miss Sloane and the election results tell us about where the gun debate stands. The piece starts this way: Miss Sloane, a highly anticipated movie demonizing the NRA and calling for gun...