From Matt Stroud at the Associated Press: . . . John R. Lott, Jr., author of More Guns Less Crime, doesn't think Hunt's gun purchase indicates that gun regulations should change. He said studies consistently show that background checks don't reduce violent crime, but...
A recent Gallup survey shows 50% of blacks believe that black males are more likely to go to prison than white males primarily because of discrimination. By contrast, only 19% of whites agreed. Blacks also indicate that they have less confidence in police and the...
One customer was killed here, but without the permit holder in this case, multiple customers might have been killed. St. Louis (occurred on Tuesday night, December 2, 2014): . . . Police said three gunmen entered the bar about 10:55 p.m. Tuesday — one of them...
John Lott was on the Trey Ware Morning Show at 8:45 AM on Thursday, December 4th to talk about the Eric Garner case and the general behavior of the police.
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News explains the dangers that police face and starts this way: As a response to the police shooting of Michael Brown, President Obama proposes $263 million for police training and body cameras. But more police training wouldn’t have...
The audio of the interview that I did with George Noory is available here. Click on table to enlarge it. Gun sales on path for near record sales, Ferguson stories might be helping increase, but sales were already high for the year The FBI NICS checks are on path for...
John Lott's newest piece at the New York Daily News starts this way: Exaggerations have poisoned discussions about relations between blacks and the police. “Black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times as likely as whites to be killed by a police officer,”...
John Lott was on the Bill Martinez Live to discuss the fall out after the Ferguson verdict was released (show went from 9:20 to 9:45 AM, Tuesday, December 2, 2014). Martinez's show airs in over 250 markets. Part 1: Part 2:
For the second year in a row, Michael Bloomberg's Everytown has tried to get people to talk about gun control during Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, the claims that Bloomberg wants people to talk to this year are no more accurate (see “Talking Turkey...
There are many errors of different types in John Donohue's research. There are some errors in the data set that ADZ produced. For example, • The observations for county 2060 in Alaska are repeated 73 times for 1996. . • The first full year of the shall-issue...
The Times-Picayune discusses the Louisiana's concealed handgun law: A study by Crime Prevention Research Center, a gun-carrying advocacy site, looked at permit data from 2007-2013. It showed for each 1 percentage point increase in the adult population holding permits...
AWR Hawkins with Breitbart News has this: Breitbart News spoke with Crime Prevention Research Center president John Lott about the suggestion that a lack of information is allowing the wrong people to slip through our current background check system. Lott suggested...