Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and the biased media coverage of it. This past Thursday, YouGov released a poll showing that 76% of Democrats thought Kyle Rittenhouse was guilty of homicide. Only 5% believed that he was not...
Dr. John Lott has the lead piece at Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College with over 6.1 million subscribers. The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on September 20, 2021, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on...
On the lawsuits over whether students and faculty can carry concealed handguns on college campuses in Montana.
Dr. John Lott and Professor Carl Moody, the CPRC's research director, have an op-ed at Townhall. Preface: Last Friday, the National Law Journal ran an op-ed by Lisa Vicens and John Donohue with many errors in it regarding a case that the U.S. Supreme Court...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist about last week's Supreme Court hearing on NYSRPA v. Bruen. This year has seen the largest increase ever in the number of concealed handgun permit holders—more than two million, for a total of 21.52 million. That is a 48...
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Newsweek starts this way. When it decides on NYSRPA v. Bruen—scheduled for oral arguments today—the Supreme Court will have a chance to stop governments from restricting the right to "bear arms." The part of the Constitution...
Letting people know that there are consequences to catastrophically negligent behavior is one sure way to make these rare events even rarer.
Dr. John Lott co-authored this piece with Congressman Thomas Massie, who represents Kentucky's Fourth Congressional District and is co-chairman of the Second Amendment Caucus. Everyone wants to stop dangerous people from getting guns. To some, the obvious solution...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist on Democrat claims of voter suppression by Republicans. “Republicans … are trying to systematically prevent ordinary citizens from making their voices heard,” former President Obama warned while campaigning in the...
Dr. John Lott has a piece on the probably upcoming Congressional votes on Biden's massive spending bills. As government spending spirals out of control, where is Montana Sen. Jon Tester? As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee in an evenly divided Senate,...
Here is a discussion about Alec Baldwin's recent problems. The first rule of gun safety is you don’t point a gun a something unless you intend to shoot it. Even if you believe the gun is unloaded, you don’t point it directly at others. Alec Baldwin didn’t follow...
While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them. While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know that firearms also save them.On May 15, an attacker at an apartment...