John Lott's newest piece at the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way: On Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg knew what was responsible for Trayvon Martin's death: Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. Or, as Bloomberg calls it: a "shoot-first" law. According to Bloomberg:...
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Fox News Piece: Why gun control just got even more difficult
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Gun control, an already difficult task, just got even more difficult. The 3D printing revolution is well under way. This wonderful new technology will allow small companies and even individuals to manufacture a...
National Review Piece: Children and Guns – The Fear and the Reality
John Lott's newest piece at National Review Online starts this way: Should you ask your neighbors if they own a gun before your child plays at their house? And what do you do if they say yes? After the tragic accidental death this month of a two-year-old Kentucky girl...
Fox News Piece: Who is really lying in the gun debate?
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: After failing to get his gun control bill passed by the Senate Wednesday, President Obama lashed out at his usual favorite targets, "the gun lobby" and Republicans. He claimed "the gun lobby and its allies...
Philadelphia Inquirer Piece: The problems of gun checks
John Lott's newest piece at the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way: Everyone wants to keep criminals from getting guns. However, expanded background checks are not the simple answer that Sens. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) and Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) think they are....
Fox News Piece: Fact vs. fiction on background checks and the gun control debate
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Will Senate Democrats be able to end debate on their new gun control bill Tuesday night? President Obama says that it is “not right” to continue the debate. But he might be more afraid that Senators will point out...
Fox News Piece: UN Arms Trade Treaty will regulate individual gun ownership
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: The U.N.'s Arms Trade Treaty, which seemed dead last July, is beginning to wrap up negotiations. The Obama administration is committed to getting it passed . Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed: “The United...
62% of Americans want the Senate to stop considering the gun control bill
So much for the belief that Americans want something done on gun control. The Reason-Rupe survey questions whether support for background checks generally mean support for a specific law that expands the regulations. The vast majority of Independents and Republicans...
Newest piece at IBD: “Media Play Up Faulty Study Suggeting Link Between Guns, Death Rates”
John Lott's newest piece at Investors' Business Daily starts this way: Do fewer guns mean fewer firearm deaths? If you believe the March 6th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association of Internal Medicine, the answer is "yes." A study by Eric Fleegler...
Piece on Canada’s National Gun Registry: Canada sank $2.7 billion into a pointless project
John Lott and Gary Mauser have a piece in the National Review on the end of Canada's long gun registry. Despite spending a whopping $2.7 billion on creating and running a long-gun registry, Canadians never reaped any benefits from the project. The legislation to end...
Ann Coulter on “America’s Most Feared Economist”
Ann's newest piece starts this way: You can tell the conservatives liberals fear most because they start being automatically referred to as "discredited." Ask Sen. Ted Cruz. But no one is called "discredited" by liberals more often than the inestimable economist John...
CPRC Research
Multiple Victim Public Shootings Yale University Law School Working Paper, October 19, 2000. Lott, John R., Jr., Yale University Law School Landes, William M. University of Chicago Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Multiple Victim Public...