Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. This piece discusses his forthcoming journal piece in Public Choice that measures vote fraud in the November 2020 presidential election. By a margin of 52% to 40%, voters believe that “cheating affected the...
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In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: ‘Constitutional’ gun carry helps law-abiding people defend themselves
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from law-abiding citizens having guns for protection. They warn us of pending disaster if Georgia becomes the 23rd...
At the Townhall: Democrats Nominate a Soft on Crime Person for the Supreme Court
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. If a criminal figures out a more effective way to break into people’s homes to steal more, should he receive a lighter sentence per dollar of what he steals? Biden’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown...
In the Missoulian: Tester is exactly right we shouldn’t be buying oil from Iran and Venezuela, but Biden’s nominees are destroying our domestic energy production
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Missoulian that discusses how the Biden administration is using financial regulations to achieve gun control and destroy the US domestic oil and gas production. Some Democrats are pushing back on President Biden’s plan to buy oil...
At Townhall: Social Media Censorship Particularly Hits Those Without Political Connections
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. Twice in thirty days, YouTube censored videos of mine on topics that I previously covered for Real Clear Investigations and Real Clear Politics. The video platform blocked me from posting anything for two weeks, and...
At Real Clear Politics, Epoch Times, and MSN.com: Media Continue Rewriting History on Trayvon Martin Anniversary
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Real Clear Politics, Epoch Times, and MSN.com: On the 10th anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death, the media is rewriting history. He is being depicted as an innocent young victim minding his own business who wasn’t a threat to...
At The Federalist: Biden’s State of the Union Promise to “Fund Police” was Pure Lip Service
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. In Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Biden claims that he wants to restore safety and control crime. He denounced efforts to “defund” the police. But with congressional elections coming up, he lacked any...
At Townhall: Canada Isn’t Alone in Using Debanking As a Weapon Against Political Opponents
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. Canada may be the future for many Americans. The Canadian government is freezing the bank accounts of truckers involved in the freedom protest. But on Thursday, they went even further, freezing the bank accounts and blocking...
At Newsweek: Biden’s Rhetoric on Guns is Far From ‘Reasonable’
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new piece at Newsweek about Biden's continual push to ban semi-automatic handguns, by far the most commonly owned handguns in the US. Fact-checkers keep assuring Americans that President Biden doesn't want to...
In the Los Angeles Times: You don’t have to shoot someone to use a gun defensively
Dr. John Lott has a letter responding to the absurd claim in the Los Angeles Times and Yahoo! News that there are only 2,000 defensive gun uses per year. A slightly longer version of the letter was published in the Kankakee, Illinois Daily Journal (February 12, 2022)....
At Fox News: Biden’s ‘guns first’ approach to violent crime ignores basic facts: Over 92% of violent crimes in America do not involve firearms
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News: With violent crime increasing over the last two years, Americans want a solution. But President Joe Biden constantly frames violent crime as only a gun problem. Again, it was the sole focus of Biden's speech in New...
At Real Clear Politics: Democrats Pushing Gun Registry as Precursor to Gun Ban
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics and the Epoch Times. Federal law explicitly prohibits the creation of a federal firearm registry, but the Biden administration is making one anyway. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has...









