Dr. John Lott talked to Judge Andrew Napolitano about a range of gun control issues from Red Flag Laws to New Jersey's ban on large magazines to what is the most important fact in the gun control debate. Napolitano: "Probably the foremost authority on gun rights in...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the New York Daily News. The piece starts this way: Twitter has locked my account. I can’t post anything or read messages from other users. The reason? In March, I tweeted that the perpetrator of the New Zealand mosque shooting...
Breitbart, June 30, 2019 Democrat presidential hopeful Eric Swalwell claims his confiscatory “assault weapons” ban would have prevented the December 14, 2012, attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. He made this claim in response to a tweet by John Lott,...
We noted last week that Twitter locked John Lott's account because of it deemed a tweet to be in violation of the company's rules. In Lott's appeal, he noted that Twitter had not offered an explanation for its action. As can be seen from the screenshot of its email,...
Dr. John Lott was on the Sandy Rios Show to discuss a case from New York where a man used his deceased Dad's gun to stop a criminal attack, but ends up in jail because gun not licensed. The man was living in the same house that his parents had lived in and had simply...
Dr. John Lott discussed the extremely biased news segment on CBS's 60 Minutes about AR-15s. The show was the most watched television show on June 26th, 2019. (Tuesday, July 2, 2019, from 6:35 to 6: AM)
The Excel file with detailed information on mass public shootings is available here. With all the discussion about having another assault weapon ban, only 13% of mass public shootings are done solely with any type of rifle. Twenty-eight percent involve only a rifle or...
Spain's fifth largest party, with 24 seats out of 350 in Parliament, campaigned this year on a promise to make it so Spaniards could use guns for self-defense and even carry permitted concealed handguns. Fox News has this: The leader of Spain's far-right Vox party...
Dr. John Lott and Richard H. Black, who represents Loudoun County in the Virginia Senate, have an op-ed at the Washington Post on the Virginia Beach shooting and the after math this coming week with legislation during the special session in Virginia. The op-ed at...
Twitter has blocked John Lott's account because of a post about the New Zealand mosque killer, and won't explain its decision (see pictures). If you have a Twitter account, please consider retweeting the Crime Prevention Research Center's tweet about this. The...
Dr. John Lott talked on Eric Bolling's America about a range of issues including The Heller Decision, Teachers Carrying Guns, Democrats pushing for new gun control regulations. Eric Bolling: "If you are into the gun debate, this man [John Lott] is the greatest...
This episode of Chicago PD tries to show the risks of a woman having a gun at home for her protection. In this case, the woman's son takes the gun to school. As the pictures from the boy's notebook indicate, he had planned to engage in a mass public shooting. But...