John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist about Gavin Newsom's promise to use the US Supreme Court decision on Texas' abortion law to push new gun control in California. You would never know it from the reaction of President Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom, but the...
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At the Orlando Sentinel: Passing constitutional-carry laws for handguns is common sense
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed with Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini in the Orlando Sentinel and also the Daily Commercial and the Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville). Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from...
At Real Clear Politics: Why Gun Storage Laws Would Do More Harm Than Good
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics, Epoch Times, Capitol Hill Times, BYC Talk, and MSN about the call for gun control after the Oxford High School shooting. Shortly after the Oxford High School shooting last Tuesday, politicians started calling for...
At Newsweek: Pennsylvania’s Constitutional Carry Law is Common Sense
Dr. John Lott and the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward have a piece in Newsweek. The same predictions of doom and bloodshed keep coming from gun-control activists. They warn us of pending disaster should Pennsylvania become the 22nd state to adopt...
At Townhall: Roe v. Wade Harmed Even Many Children Born After the Court’s Decision
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about the Supreme Court's oral arguments about abortion on Wednesday. Over and over during the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on Wednesday about Mississippi’s new abortion law, Dobbs v. Jackson, those defending abortion argued...
At the Greeley Tribune: Appeals court decision could upend Red Flag law in Colorado
Lori Saine and Dr. John Lott have an op-ed in the Greeley Tribune (Greeley, Colorado). A new Colorado Appeals court decision will almost surely lead to the state’s new Red Flag law being struck down. The law allows judges to confiscate people’s firearms on nothing...
At Real Clear Politics: Support for More Gun Control Falls, But Partisan Gap Grows
The partisan divide on gun control has never been so large — 91% of Democrats and only 24% of Republicans support stricter laws.
At Townhall: There’s Been Continual Media Dishonesty in the Kyle Rittenhouse Trial
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...
At Imprimis: Is Ensuring Election Integrity Anti-Democratic?
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...
At the Billings Gazette and Montana Standard: Opponents’ claims about guns on campus don’t hold up
On the lawsuits over whether students and faculty can carry concealed handguns on college campuses in Montana.
At Townhall: Without False Claims About The Risk of Concealed Handgun Permit Holders, The Left Has Nothing
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...
At the Federalist: Data Disproves Left’s Fear Of Adhering To The Constitution On Guns
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...








