When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our country has experienced a staggering 650 mass shootings,”...
Rasmussen Reports survey from May 31 to June 5, 2022 shows that Americans are divided on banning "assault weapons," including AR-15s. The survey finds that 44% of Likely U.S. voters believe banning weapons like the AR-15 would not violate the Second...
There has been a lot of legal back and forth California's new concealed handgun that law bans carrying guns in 26 new places; most public places, including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks, and zoos, go into effect today (see the list below). Going into...
The Illinois State Police won’t pursue charges against Illinois residents who didn’t register their weapons that fall under the new law by the January 1st deadline. The ISP says the FOID Portal will remain open and people can submit endorsement affidavits at any time....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. Prices in the U.S. have been rising across the board, but the increase in airfares has been particularly acute. Part of that is due to a significant pilot shortage. A new report from the Oliver Wyman consulting...
The Iowa Perry High School is under the Perry Community School District. The shooting left two people dead and six injured. It has a very clear firearms policy. The only exceptions for people having guns on school grounds that are listed as: "conducting instructional...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. . As of Jan 1, Californians are banned from carrying permitted concealed handguns in virtually the entire state. There is no evidence that permit holders have caused problems in California or elsewhere in the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKlVRvj58Vo As the Crime Prevention Research Center has often pointed out, television crime shows seem to think criminals constantly use machine guns to commit crime. Unfortunately, Amazon's Reacher Show is no different (Season 2,...
Dr. John Lott talked to KNRS’s Clark Aposhian about how the media misinforms people on guns and our research comparing crime rates in Republican and Democrat states. (Saturday, December 30, 2023)
California's new concealed handgun law bans carrying guns in 26 places; most public places, including public parks and playgrounds, churches, banks, and zoos, go into effect today. Going into any business that doesn't have a posted sign saying that you can carry,...
Dr. John Lott appeared on Stacy on the Right, a nationwide radio show, to discuss how the mainstream media covers gun control and crime. They has also talked about the university shooting in Prague. (Friday, December 22, 2023, from 10;05 to 10:30 PM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXM8sWHV33I Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Martinez on his TV talk show about the media's biased coverage of crime. (Wednesday, December 20, 2023)