Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News on the strange behavior of the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed news. Jonah Peretti would set up websites and send out massive numbers of emails using other people's identities to either harm their businesses or to advance his...
William Barr comes across as being somewhat receptive to gun control regarding mental health issues. During his confirmation hearing this past week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he had this exchange with Senator Diane Feinstein: Senator Feinstein: "In 1994,...
Dr. John Lott and Professor Carl Moody have new research on the Red Flag Laws/Extreme Risk Protective Orders. A copy of the new research can be obtained here. Abstract Red flag laws had no significant effect on murder, suicide, the number of people killed in mass...
Dr. John Lott's newest piece in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review discusses Pittsburgh's proposed gun control laws. The piece starts this way: Pennsylvania’s 1.3 million concealed handgun permit holders may soon be considered criminals while visiting Pittsburgh. The...
Dr. John Lott talked to Dom Giordano on the giant 50,000-watt radio station about evidence showing that illegal immigrants are not as law-abiding as the mainstream media wants us to believe. (Thursday, January 17, 2019, from 10:35 to 10:45 AM) ...
Dr. John Lott, President Crime Prevention Research Center, discusses a new gun-control bill (SB501) in Oregon. Should this bill pass, it will ban all magazines over five rounds. Ammunition purchases will be limited to twenty rounds per month. No gun that can hold more...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the debate over whether the wall makes sense. His piece starts this way: The federal government partial shutdown drags on as politicians can’t agree on what to do with illegal aliens. Trump wants a wall to keep out...
Dr. John R. Lott, Jr. spoke with the Young Turks' Cenk Uygur about how universal background checks disarm poor minorities. The also debated whether more guns mean less crime. Regarding claims about how crime rates vary across nations see here and how crime rates...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Malzberg on DC's WMAL about CNN's claims regarding illegal aliens and crime. Lott and Malzberg also talked about the coming debate over gun control both nationally and in states such as Virginia. He talked about the universal background...
Dr. John Lott talks with Judge Napolitano about crime reduction when law-abiding citizens own and carry guns for self-defense.
The gun show loophole has always been a misnomer because it implies that somehow the rules for buying a gun in a gun show are somehow different than buying a gun outside of a gun show. The other part of this is that the multiple surveys done of criminal criminals find...
Dr. John Lott will be giving talks on gun control on Wednesday, January 16th. -- University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor at 11:50 AM in Hutchins 218 -- Cooley Law School in Lansing at 4:00 PM