Dr. John Lott was on the 50,000-watt WLW to talk whether the media's constant emphasis on possible future violence against themselves will encourage attacks against them. The interview started off talking about how the media and politicians unfairly single out...
Dr. John Lott joined Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago's WIND to talk about Chicago's continuing crime problem. After murder clearance rates had declined from 67% in 1991 to 20% in 2016, they continued to decline to just 17.5% in 2017. It isn't very difficult to...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com that the media has to realize that giving a huge amount of attention about possible violence against themselves makes that violence more likely. Mass public shooters do their attacks to get media attention, and the media...
The CPRC has compiled a list of states that allow teachers or staff to carry guns at school. After the Parkland school shooting in February, Florida passed a law mandating that all schools in the state hire police to guard their schools. Thirteen of the school...
Laura Ingraham cites on Dr. John Lott's research on Crime by Illegal Aliens during her show on Fox News. A copy of the research is available here. (Tuesday, August 7, 2018)
Dr. John Lott talked to Michigan Talk Network about New York State threatening financial institution and insurance companies with ruin if they work with NRA. (Tuesday, August 7, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:54 AM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYJGNTihIM A lot of TV characters these days are saying how much they hate guns. It is hard to think of any other item that they so regularly deride. We previously pointed to ABC’s The Crossing, when the Sheriff's son says, “I don’t...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News that starts this way: Thankfully, a heroic citizen with a permit to legally carry a concealed handgun was able to save countless lives in Florida Saturday when he shot a gunman who opened fire on a back-to-school event...
St. Petersburg, FL's Channel 9 interviews Dr. John Roman, Dr. John Lott, and Justin Murphy. As usual, the media identifies Lott as pro-gun and doesn't have similar anti-self-defense labels for the other two people. The surveillance video from the store shows that on...
Update: From Fox 32 WOFL in Orlando, Florida. Titusville Police still have not released the name of the man who stopped the shooter at a park on Saturday, but they are calling him a hero. The gunshots still echo across social media, after the emcee at Titusville’s...
From an article by Dean Weingarten at The Truth About Guns: In 2015, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) made an error in the number of fatal firearms accidents they reported that occurred in 2014. It was so large that it was obvious. The number of fatal firearm...
As we noted in June, Democrats are seeking to restrict gun rights by targeting financial institutions. One of the more vicious attacks has been by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) to force the NRA out of business. Here is the NRA complaint....