[Originally posted on Saturday, June 1] Another horrifying attack and immediately gun control politicians and organizations are calling for more gun control laws. Former VP Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former...
The video here shows a very small part of a segment from Doctor Who, which shows how badly things go wrong when you use guns to try to neutralize deadly threats. Here is a paragraph from a review in IndieWire which briefly summarizes the whole segment (copyright...
Americans got a timely reminder about Obama's views on guns. Last Thursday, he addressed a large Brazilian audience about American gun laws. Obama claimed: “Our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon, any time, without much, if...
Dr. John Lott talked to Graham Ledger on One America News about the Crime Prevention Research Center's new research that schools that allow teachers to carry guns. We find that those schools that allow teachers to carry are extremely safe: data on the rate of...
Our recent research on school shootings has gotten an extensive editorial write-up in nine newspapers across Florida. Palm Beach Daily News, May 30, 2019; Florida Times-Union, May 30, 2019; Daily Commercial, May 30, 2019; St. Augustine Record, May 30, 2019;...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about Lott's research on the impact of Roe v Wade on a wide array of American society. Ever wonder why the 1970s saw what appear to be many contradictory changes? • A sharp increase in pre-marital sex....
The graphs and tables below allow you to see how the percent of adults with concealed handgun permits are changing in states from 2013 to 2018. On the top right of graph is a toggle that allows you set the graphs for any years from 2013 to 2018 or over a range of...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall that starts this way: Twenty years after Columbine, the United States is still looking for how to stop mass public shootings. The rest of the world, where mass public shootings are actually much more common, is also looking...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times about the views that Joe Biden and other Democrat presidential candidates have on gun control. The piece starts this way: Every one of the 24 Democratic presidential candidates supports more gun control....
TV shows frequently have characters insisting that they don't like guns. At the beginning of the first episode on CBS's Elementary in Season 7, one of the main characters makes a similar comment. Joan Watson (played by Lucy Liu): "Just because I am an American doesn't...
Television entertainment shows keep pushing a myth by gun control advocates that gun licensing and registration is an effective way to solve crime. Their reasoning is straightforward: If a criminal leaves a gun (or for this show a bullet casing) at a crime scene, they...
Dr. John Lott gave this talk on "gun control myths" in Indianapolis on April 27, 2019. More information can be obtained here. Please consider supporting the Crime Prevention Research Center.