These articles discuss how blacks and trans people are buying guns for protection. This is quite the change in the Washington Posts' approach to guns. For weeks, men carrying rifles have guarded the roads leading into Lincoln Heights, Ohio, stopping and questioning...
Paramount+'s Landman is continuing Taylor Sheridan putting guns in a relatively positive light. His Yellowstone had a couple of examples of defensive gun use. This episode of Landman (Season 1, 2024) makes the point often made by gun owners that it is better to have a...
The former director of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation references our work. . Dear editor: . I read with interest and some dismay the dueling letters between Dr. John Lott and lawyer Linda Burtabout the issue of gun free zones. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww6gSG_IPbU Here is a discussion of a 1962 episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show. Firearms are shown hanging on the wall in their house. How many TV shows today would have firearms hanging on the walls of a suburban house?
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Real Clear Politics. . Being in the public eye brings many challenges, and the Pollack family knows this all too well. In 2018, they lost their daughter, Meadow, in the horrific shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDcMGziws88 Paramount+'s Landman is continuing Taylor Sheridan putting guns in a relatively positive light. His Yellowstone had a couple of examples of defensive gun use (here, here). This episode of Landman (Season 1, Episode 10,...
Here is another defensive gun use by a child. A 14-year-old Kentucky boy shot and killed two men trying to steal firearms from a safe in a home over the weekend, police said. Clay County 911 got a call at about 4:24 a.m. Sunday about a shooting incident in Manchester....
Dr. John Lott has a letter to the editor in Wyoming's largest newspaper responding to claims about an earlier op-ed he had published with state Senator Cheri Steinmetz. Dear editor: Linda Burt’s letter to the editor criticizing my opinion piece with state Senator...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhIzIywlGq0 This is Dr. John Lott's brief testimony before the Wyoming state Senate Judiciary Committee on February 18th, 2025. The bill had already passed the House by a veto proof 50-to-10 margin. On February 18th, 2025, the bill...
The bill had already passed the House by a veto proof 50-to-10 margin. Dr. Lott had written an op-ed with Wyoming state Senator Cheri Steinmetz in the state's largest newspaper. Multiple witnesses on both sides of the gun control referenced Lott's research. ....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6Yoc_MBCg A lot of TV characters these days are saying how much they hate guns. It is hard to think of any other item they so regularly deride. It is as if the media is trying to condition people to hate guns. This is from an older...
There has been a sudden surge in optimism under Trump, but what is particularly interesting is that the biggest increase has been among the least educated and lowest income people.