So much for the belief that Americans want something done on gun control. The Reason-Rupe survey questions whether support for background checks generally mean support for a specific law that expands the regulations. The vast majority of Independents and Republicans...
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Newest piece at IBD: “Media Play Up Faulty Study Suggeting Link Between Guns, Death Rates”
John Lott's newest piece at Investors' Business Daily starts this way: Do fewer guns mean fewer firearm deaths? If you believe the March 6th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association of Internal Medicine, the answer is "yes." A study by Eric Fleegler...
Piece on Canada’s National Gun Registry: Canada sank $2.7 billion into a pointless project
John Lott and Gary Mauser have a piece in the National Review on the end of Canada's long gun registry. Despite spending a whopping $2.7 billion on creating and running a long-gun registry, Canadians never reaped any benefits from the project. The legislation to end...
Ann Coulter on “America’s Most Feared Economist”
Ann's newest piece starts this way: You can tell the conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred to as "discredited." Ask Sen. Ted Cruz. But no one is called "discredited" by liberals more often than the inestimable economist John...
CPRC Research
Multiple Victim Public Shootings Yale University Law School Working Paper, October 19, 2000. Lott, John R., Jr., Yale University Law School Landes, William M. University of Chicago Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Multiple Victim Public...
Brady Campaign and other gun control groups continue to refuse to debate
I was basically going to ignore this, but I got an email today from a student at Dickinson College named David Milstein who had been trying for many weeks to arrange a debate for me on his college. David informed me that the gun control groups would not participate in...
10 Defensive Gun Uses in December 2012 where victims had to fire a lot of shots in self defense
There are a lot of cases where victims face multiple attackers. Here are just some of the cases from December 2012. When I read through these cases it was clear to me that there were seven cases that involved a large number of defensive shots fired. While it's not...
At the Wall Street Journal: The Facts About Assault Weapons and Crime
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed at the Wall Street Journal on the push for an assault weapons ban. Warning about "weapons designed for the theater of war," President Obama on Wednesday called for immediate action on a new Federal Assault Weapons Ban. He said that "more of...
So are movie theaters near where the Aurora, Colorado killer lived posted to prevent concealed carry?
As many now know, the Cinemark movie theaters in Colorado ban permit holders from carrying their guns into the movie theater. The media mentions that the theater was "close to [the killer's] home," but where there other movie theaters? What...