Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Daily Caller on today's shooting at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Yet another shooting at yet another gun-free zone occurred today. At this moment 5 people were murdered and another 8 injured. The tragedy...
A shooting today at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has left at least 5 dead and 13 injured. Not surprisingly, Florida is one of only 6 states with laws that banned carrying guns in the unsecured areas of airports. A move was killed in 2016 to...
Dr. John Lott talked to John Carlson and Kirby Wilbur on Seattle's big KVI about the new Social Security rules that could ban 4.2 Americans from owning guns. (January 4, 2016 from 12:35 to 12:49 PM)
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...