Dr. John Lott was on the national Lars Larson show to discuss a recent report by NPR about the grossly exaggerated numbers involving school shootings and our own new research on mass public shooting rates in countries around the world. Of course, we have long pointed...
People with criminal records might also need guns for protection. Indeed, in at least some states, the primary reason that people apply to get their records expunged is so that they can again own a gun. Here is a rather shocking story of a woman who saved her life and...
Our attempts this week to put up ads on Facebook produced some disturbing results. Facebook treated a news link from Fox News and a link to our website very differently, even though both contained the same information. We have previously been prevented many times from...
National Review, September 4, 2018 I’ve previously discussed the research of Adam Lankford, who claims that the U.S. is home to nearly a third of the entire world’s mass shootings and blames our high level of gun ownership, and I’ve noted his refusal “to share...
Circa News has a story carried on Sinclair news sites on our new research on the rate of mass public shooters/shootings across countries. Their piece starts this way: In the gun control debate, it is hard enough to agree on solutions but often getting the facts...
Fox News is the latest to have a news article on our latest research comparing the rate of mass shooters across countries. The title of their piece is slightly off. They should have noted that we found the US made up less than 1.5% of mass public shooters. The Fox...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Daily Caller on the false news claims put out by groups such as the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. The piece starts this way: Word leaked Thursday via The New York Times that Education Secretary Betsey Devos was...
Dr. John Lott talked to Gary Nolan on his show that covers much of Missouri (KWOS and KSSZ) about our new report on mass public shootings around the world. (Friday, August 31, 2018, 10:35 to 10: 51 AM)
Drs. John Lott and Michael Weisser have an op-ed in Friday's New York Post. The claim that the US has by far the most mass public shootings in the world drives much of the gun-control debate. Many argue that America’s high rate of gun possession explains the high rate...
Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner has a brief write up on our new research on mass public shootings around the world. An authoritative fact check of a media-hyped report that 31 percent of the world’s mass shootings have occurred in the United States has found...
Dr. John Lott talked to Todd Simpson about how gun control advocates use fees to prevent poor people from having guns for protection. They also talked about the recent CPRC report on concealed handgun permits. (Wednesday, August 29, 2018, from 4:15 to 4:30 PPM)
Executive Summary A paper on mass public shootings by Adam Lankford (2016) has received massive national and international media attention, getting coverage in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, plus hundreds of other news outlets spanning at least 35...