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Correspondence with 12 Gun-Control Advocates regarding Bet on Brazil’s Firearm Ban
Dr. John Lott contacted 12 prominent gun-control advocate academics, and he offered a $1,000 bet on if Brazil’s homicide rate would go up or down during the first two years of the bans that President Lula has implemented. Here are the records of the correspondence...
On The Vicki McKenna Show: Texas Bill Offering Teachers $25,000 to go through the Training to Carry Concealed Handguns at School
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about "Texas teachers packing heat to make $25K as armed ‘sentinels’ if bill passes." (Monday, May 1, 2023) Vicki’s show covers most of Wisconsin and part of the Minneapolis area in...
On the Michigan Talk Network: There have been no shooting attacks in schools where teachers can legally carry guns
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about his recent piece at Townhall about titled: "Uniformed School Resource Officers Aren’t the Solution to Stop Mass Public Shootings." (Thursday, April 27, 2023)
Testimony before the Delaware House Judiciary Committee on Licensing the Ownership of Handguns
Dr. John Lott testified virtually before the Delaware House Judiciary Committee on Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 2, which requires citizens to obtain a handgun-qualified purchaser permit to authorize the purchase of a handgun, with an exemption for concealed...
Defensive Gun Uses By People Legally Carrying Guns: 33 Cases During January 2023
New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1, 2023 (FOX 8 News) The NOPD was investigating a second shooting early Sunday, after finding an adult male victim downed by multiple gunshot wounds allegedly fired by a tow truck driver in the 4000 block of Tulane Avenue in Mid-City…...
On Armed American Radio: To Discuss Texas Mall Shooting
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on his national Armed American Radio show about the outlet mall shooting in Allen, Texas. The massacre occurred in yet another gun-free zone, though not all parts of the mall might have been properly posted. (Sunday, May 7,...
Media Bias: CBS’s S.W.A.T. shows two failed defensive gun uses by civilians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XCkWX_P5bI Over the last two decades, you will search in vain for civilians successfully using guns in self-defense in entertainment television shows. When civilians use guns defensively, something always goes wrong. Either they...
At the Federalist: If Brazil’s Firearm Ban Is So Great, Why Won’t Gun-Control Activists Bet On It?
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. Copies of the correspondence are available here. This piece also appeared in American Liberty. “I contacted 12 prominent gun-control advocates…I offered a $1,000 bet on if Brazil’s homicide rate would go up or down...
On Erskine’s TruthExpress Radio: To Discuss Supreme Court Nominations and Vote Fraud
Dr. John Lott talked to Erskine on TruthExpress Radio about his book "Dumbing Down the Courts" and his research on vote fraud in the 2020 presidential election. (Saturday, March 4, 2023)
The Washington Post actually has a positive article on gun ownership
The Washington Post probably ran this article because they thought conservatives would be upset about blacks owning and carrying guns. In fact, from the very beginning of Dr. John Lott's research in More Guns, Less Crime, he has argued that the very people who are the...
More Media Bias: CBS’s Blue Blood TV show has a drug gang using a machine gun against police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL3cXUoLmug 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, CBS's Blue Bloods TV show is no different (Season 13,...