After each mass public shooting there is an immediate call for more gun control laws, but strangely the effort keeps on being for gun control laws that are completely unrelated to the crime that they were being motivated by. People say that they want to do something,...
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson about his piece in the New York Times and what can be done to fix the background check system. These should be simple obvious changes that everyone can agree to. For example, do we really want millions of people wrongly denied...
Notice that when gun control advocates supported laws that made it so that the Republican congressmen last year couldn't defend themselves, did Republicans attack Democrats for having "blood on their hands." No, but that is a common attack for Democrats. As noted...
Picture of victim being removed from ISIS attack in Tunisia that left 39 people dead LAST UPDATED: Updated on February 14, 2018. Previous November 1, 2017; April 29, 2016 (originally posted on June 28, 2015) (Detailed discussion on Europe and the...
UPDATE: At least 17 people were killed in this horrible attack. ORIGINAL POST: When will there be a serious discussion of the dangers of gun-free zones? When will the media point out in their discussions of the guns used or how the guns were obtained that another...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the New York Times on some of the problems with background checks. The piece starts this way: With each mass shooting, calls rise from gun control advocates for tighter rules on firearms. The go-to policy prescription involves...
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Martinez on his national radio show early this past week about the national gun control debate and his recent research on crime by illegal aliens. (Tuesday, February 7, 2018, from 10:05 to 10:30 AM)
In a series of scenes that could have been written by Michael Bloomberg, Designated Survivor keeps making the case for expanded background checks. No intellectual argument or even an emotional argument is provided against the gun control claims, and those opposing...
NBC's The Blacklist showed real bias against guns in the segment titled "The Invisible Hand," Season 5, episode 13. The show starts off with a group of people accusing a maker of inexpensive guns of being a purveyor of death, that the cheap guns are only designed for...
Dr. John Lott was on the Rev. Jesse Peterson's National Radio Show to discuss crime by illegal aliens. (Wednesday, February 7, 2018, from 9:15 to 9:22 AM)
Dr. John Lott appeared on Fox News to debate immigration attorney Allen Orr about Lott's new research on crime by illegal immigrants and the attacks on his work. The discussion first summarizes Lott's work, then interviews a woman whose son was killed by an illegal...
We have already responded to many comments on Twitter and updated the earlier copy of the research. The latest version can be downloaded here. The Cato Institute and others have raised new attacks, which we respond to below (including responding to their responses...