Snopes.com recently fact-checked a post that we first put up in June 2015 and updated on January 7, 2016. This became an issue for them because a story that Fox News' Special Report that had run a couple years ago was getting circulated on Facebook after...
A 22-year-old woman claims that she was fired from her job as a social worker simply because she has a concealed handgun permit, not because she actually had her gun with her near work. Durham is a victim of sexual assault who apparently got her permit because she...
Antonia Okafor mentions Crime Prevention Research Center on Mass Public Shooting around the World. February 16, 2018, 5:30 to 5:31 AM https://crimeresearch.org/2018/02/with-39-killed-in-tunisia-attack-the-top-three-mass-public-shootings-are-outside-the-united-states/...
The Miami Herald has this description of the incredibly slow response from the Broward Sheriff's office. While Broward Deputy Scot Peterson arrived at the building one minute after the attack started, it was another 10 minutes before any officers attempted to enter...
The Hill, March 8, 2018 As has been the case with school shootings, American soldiers were sitting ducks in the defenseless killing fields known as “gun-free zones,” where criminals, but not the average citizen would be armed. In fact, the Crime Prevention Research...
UPDATED: October 8, 2018 (ORIGINAL March 7, 2018): After the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, a number of states have considered allowing teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns. The obvious question is how has it worked in the states that allow guns to...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News that starts this way: The Florida House gave final legislative approval Wednesday to a bill banning gun sales to anyone under 21, sending the measure to Gov. Rick Scott, who has not said whether he will sign it into law. More...
Over the last couple of decades, it is hard to see any particular pattern in the number of police officers who have been murdered in the line of duty, but the pattern for ambush killings, attacks that involved premeditation is a different story. During the years from...
Siegel, Xuan, Ross, Galea, Kalesan, Fleegler, and Goss have a paper in the American Journal of Public Health that claims to be the first paper to find a statistically significant increase in homicides from the passage of right-to-carry laws. The bottom line is that...
Dr. John Lott along with Clarissa Rile Hayward a political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, Christopher Huff at Beacon College, and Ernest McGowen, a Political Scientist at the University of Richmond was interviewed by Voice of America. The interview...
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at The Hill newspaper starts this way. If you can’t beat the other side’s arguments, silence them. The idea is to keep yelling that the NRA is racist, that they are murderers and have “blood on their hands,” that they are a “terrorist...
Dr. John Lott joined Tron Simpson to discuss President Trump's take on gun control. (Sunday, March 4, 2018, from 3:20 to 3:50 PM)