Dr. John Lott wrote a piece for Townhall that fact-checked some of the claims made during the Democrat presidential debate on Tuesday night in Charleston, South Carolina. The piece starts this way: For once, a gun control claim was too much for even the media...
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, five people were murdered by an employee at the Molson Coors Beverage Company. Below is a picture of one of their facilities. The murderer was also killed at the scene. Our research showing that 94% of mass public...
Dr. John Lott talked to Dan Crenshaw on his podcast "We hold these truths." They discussed the evidence showing More Guns, Less Crime as well as many different types of gun controls.
This piece draws on research that Dr. John Lott did regarding the substitutability between using the police state and indoctrination to control citizens. The piece at Townhall starts this way: With Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) becoming the odds on favorite to win the...
Dr. John Lott and Brad Smith have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the harm created by campaign finance laws. Since campaign finance laws carry criminal penalties, they are something that interests the Crime Prevention Research Center. The laws create a very...
This TV show on NBC is hardly unique in showing criminals using machine guns. This segment clearly shows the police officers being outgunned by a criminal with a machine gun. This is from Chicago PD (Season 7, E13) January 22, 2020. On TV shows, machine guns always...
Dr. John Lott talked to Michael Dukes on his radio stations across Alaska (KFAR in Fairbanks, KPEN in Kenai/Seward/Anchorage, KGTL in Homer) about the push in Alaska for a Red Flag Law. The interview was also available on Facebook and can be heard here. (February 21,...
This new show on CBS starts with lots of politically correct themes. In the second episode, the new female police chief's daughter is distraught over the fact that her mom has a gun in the home. Even though the gun is locked up, Over the last five years that data is...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about Bloomberg's 2015 racist remarks that were riddled with inaccuracies. (Wednesday, February 19, 2020, from 8:35 to 8:46 AM)
On February 19, 2020 at about 10 PM, at a town near Frankfurt, Germany, a man fatally shot nine people at two hookah lounges. A gunman killed nine people in two apparently racially motivated shootings at [two] shisha bars in the German town of Hanau, police said. The...
Dr. John Lott was on Larry Elder's national radio show to discuss Michael Bloomberg's false claims about young, minority males accounting for 95% of murderers. (Tuesday, February 18, 2020, from 7:21 to 7:30 PM)
CBS, like all the other networks, are obsessed with showing criminals shooting machine guns. This example is from "FBI: Most Wanted" (Season 1, Episode 6, February 18, 2020). Some hyperbole is to be expected on television, but the level of exaggeration has become...