How appropriate is it for a former FBI director donating $100,000 to a trust fund for a major Democrat who was talking about running for president? Does that come across as bribery to get an important job? “I would be delighted to do future work with you {Hunter],”...
A concealed handgun permit holder came to the rescue of a Jewish family that were being attacked by a group of thugs. Police in Florida are investigating an anti-Semitic incident involving a Jewish family in the Miami area who received help from a gun owner, according...
The news media and entertainment television keep pushing the notion that most mass public shootings are done by white supremacists. Who is a white supremacist is actually fairly difficult to determine because many of the classifications are based on solely whether the...
Prof. Carl Moody, the CPRC's Research Director, has a new paper (available here) explaining why so many other papers are making mistakes in how they estimate the impact of concealed handguns on crime rates. The point might seem obvious, that there are huge differences...
The New York Times' David Leonhardt claims that the move by states to provide protections against voter fraud is part of “the Republican Party’s growing discomfort with democracy.” Dr. John Lott submitted the following letter to the editor in response. Of course, the...
Television show bias against guns is never ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a victim successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively, and this episode of NBC's Chicago PD...
Nikki Goeser talked to Bill Martinez on his national radio show about her testimony before the US Senate on Red Flag Laws. (Wednesday, May 12, 2021, from 9:46 to 9:58 AM)
The paper on in-person and proxy voting rules can be downloaded here. There are 157 pages of appendices so that people can check the information provided. The paper on absentee voting rules is available here. Abstract Americans keep hearing that there is no need to...
Television show bias against guns is never ending. You won’t see an entertainment television show that has a victim successfully using a gun defensively. Instead, something always seems to go wrong when guns are used defensively, and this episode of CBS' FBI: Most...
The fact that an anti-abortion protestor saved a woman who was going into an abortion clinic should be very newsworthy. If the opposite had happened, if the protestor had harmed the woman, it would get national news. But this story of an anti-abortion protestor saving...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about Detroit Police Chief James Craig. Craig has has a very different way of handling the riots that we saw this past year, and he has turned out to be very successful. Craig is retiring as the police...
Dr. John Lott talked to Scoot on the giant 50,000-watt WWL radio about what has caused the increase in violent crime over the last year. (Wednesday, May 12, 2021, from 3:10 to 3:26 PM)