Gun control organizations can do little wrong as far as most of the press is concerned. Earlier this month, Dr. John Lott was supposed to give a commencement address at a high school graduation of 2,000 students in Las Vegas. It turns out that David Keene, the past president for the NRA and editor-at-large for the Washington Times, was also invited to be “the” commencement speaker.…
You have to admire Governor Greg Abbott’s style.
…Gov. Greg Abbott visited the Alamo Thursday to ceremoniously sign a bill into law allowing most adults to carry a handgun without a permit or training.
Lynnanne Nguyễn and Black Hanson, “Texas governor signs new law allowing handguns without a permit,” KDFW Fox Channel 4, June 17, 2021.
…Overall, gun policies in state capitols, even after the January riot in Washington, remain split. About 30 state capitols employ metal detectors, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Conversely, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center, a pro-gun research group, about 23 capitols officially allow carrying legal firearms inside.
Dr. John Lott talked to Dinesh D’Souza on his podcast about why more guns mean less crime and also why our new research on voting rules in other countries.
(June 14, 2021)
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Missoulian responding to a news article attack on him.
…The Missoulian’s initial report on there being thousands more recorded votes than envelopes for the ballots from Missoula County’s November all-mail-in election was largely a response to my investigative article at Real Clear Investigations (RCI) (Jordan Hansen, “GOP-backed group claims’ irregularities’ on Missoula County 2020 ballots,” March 30).
…Reality check: Voter ID Is Huge in Europe
While Democrats are “warning anew of racist voter ‘suppression,’ . . . democracies in Europe and elsewhere tell a different story — of the benefits of stricter voter-ID requirements after hard lessons learned,” reports John R. Lott Jr. at RealClearInvestigations. “Of 47 nations surveyed in Europe — a place where, on other matters, American progressives often look to with envy — all but one country requires a government-issued photo voter ID to vote.”
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) relied very heavily on the research from the CPRC.
Massie’s former staffer is our Executive Director, Nikki Goeser. Her recent testimony before the US Senate is available here.
Information on safe storage laws is available here.
The Charleston Loophole false claims
The discriminatory nature of these laws against minorities and the poor is discussed here.…
…For example, on September 9, 2016, Breitbart News reported data from John Lott’s book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, which showed that Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law benefited black people more than white people.
Lott wrote:
“From 2005 through October 1, 2014, blacks made up 16.7 percent of Florida’s population and 34 percent of the defendants who invoked Stand Your Ground.
Dr. John Lott appeared on the national Alan Nathan Show to talk about the piece that he wrote at Townhall with Dr. Timothy Craig Allen, who is both on our Board of Directors and a governor of the College of American Pathologists. They discussed “The Hysterical Reaction To The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Endangers Lives” and claimed death toll from the Coronavirus.…
Gosh, Eric Adams might be a traditional liberal in lots of ways, but there is one thing that makes a huge difference: he was a police officer for 20 years.
…Adams, the Brooklyn Borough president, was the first-place pick for 21 percent of the respondents in a three-day survey conducted by Washington, D.C.-based
