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...
After its second full weekend of national release it is clear that the new gun control movie, Miss Sloane, will soon be yanked from most of the theaters showing it. The movie has so far made $3.2 million, but its budget was reported $13 million. In addition, they...
While adopting Constitutional Carry in Idaho means that training is no longer mandated by state law, the Idaho Statesman has some interviews that show that even people who are carrying without a permit still feel the need to get training. However, the benefit of not...
The Dominion Post (Morgantown, West Virginia), December 18, 2016 Morgantown City Council will once again take aim at determining whether firearms should be allowed in municipal buildings, and if so, who should be permitted to carry them. The issue is among those...
The fourth case below provides and example of one of the very few defensive gun use cases that gets picked up by other media around the country. It is also an example of media bias in terms of how these cases are covered as the reason it got extensive media coverage...
AWR Hawkins has a review of The War on Guns at Breitbart. If you have ever thought it would be helpful to have a reference book you could flip through to quickly read up on the actual facts surrounding things like background checks, mass public shootings, stand your...
Dr. John Lott as another piece at Fox News on some of the false statements that fact checkers have made about guns, crime, taxes, and vote fraud. To protect Americans against “fake” news, Facebook will now use filters so that only “reputable” articles can appear at...
Andrew Branca has a review of Dr. Lott's new book at Legal Insurrection. The entire review is worth reading. Here are a few select paragraphs from it. For those of us in the gun rights and concealed carry community (and old enough to have been around) the 1990s was...
Dr. John Lott talked to Dan Mason about Lott's piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Michael Bloomberg's push for gun control laws across the US. (Tuesday, December 13, 2016 from 6:35 to 7:00 PM). Dr. John Lott talked to WWL about their Tommy Tucker about road rage in...
Dr. Lott has a new piece at the Daily Caller that start this way: Democrats and their media allies are trying everything they can to delegitimize Trump’s election. It started with a series of hopeless recounts, and now they claim that Russia hacked Democrat emails. ....
Dr. John Lott talked with Greg Garrison on his radio show about our research on police killing suspects and also Michael Bloomberg's role in the gun control debate. (Wednesday, December 14, 2016 from 11:05 to 11:30 AM)