The Associated Press has an article on Florida approaching 2 million concealed handgun permit holders. The attached national graph is from the Associated Press article. Florida had a total of 1,971,997 currently valid concealed weapon permits as of March 31, according...
Sullivan County, TN, February 13, 2019 (WJHL News 11) This first example is the type of case you only would have seen on the national news if the law-abiding citizen wasn't here with a gun to stop the attack. A shooting at a dentist office in Colonial Heights,...
With Canada government considering a ban on handguns, the Toronto Police Association has spoken out against the ban. "There's no way in my world or any world I know that this would have an impact on somebody who's going to go out and buy an illegal gun and use it to...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at NationalReview.com about Senator Bernie Sanders' proposal that felons in prison be able to vote. The piece starts this way: Democrats used to argue that once felons had served their time, they had paid their debts to society and should...
Steven "Destiny" Bonnell and Dr. John Lott debated gun control on the Red Elephants and Destiny youtube channels. Mr. Bonnell has a large following by young people on social media. While this was billed as a debate, it turned into more of a discussion than a debate....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece on how television shows are so biased against gun ownership. The piece starts this way. The push to demonize private gun ownership never stops. Michael Bloomberg and other gun control advocates are continuing to pour hundreds of millions...
Dr. John Lott and our research director Professor Carl Moody have piece on what we believe has been one of the bigger academic frauds. The paper on an international comparison of mass public shootings can be downloaded here. Abstract In 2016 Adam Lankford published a...
Dr. John Lott talk with Dana Loesch about the false belief that banning Assault Weapons will somehow reduce homicides. Also discussed is the fact that gun-control advocates are trying to use poorly done studies to convince the public that concealed handguns are a huge...
CBS's Bull continues its consistent bias against gun ownership (previous shows during Season 3 are here and here). In Season 3, episode 18, the episode fits gun control advocates claims about the dangers of guns in the home, particularly their assertions about...
Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA references the Crime Prevention Research Center's research on crime by illegal aliens in Arizona. This is part of a much longer statement that Kirk made, but his first point is to cite CPRC research. More information on our research...
Dr. Lott spoke with host Steve Gruber about how costly it is for states to go and register guns as well as the fact that virtually no crimes are ever solved because of registration. (Tuesday, March 2, 2019 6:45-6:54am)
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at the Washington Times discusses some of the problems with the Red Flag laws. Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams in Colorado made news Monday over his willingness to go to jail over his refusal to enforce what will soon be the state’s new...