Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall: With violent crime increasing over the last year, Americans want a solution. Over and over, President Joe Biden frames violent crime as a gun problem. His presentation this month was no different. But the problem is much more...
The CPRC's Nikki Goeser has an op-ed in the Tennessean about her fight to get a lifetime order of protection in Tennessee. A new law, for which I was the sole witness to testify before state lawmakers, took effect on July 1, giving victims of violent crime an option...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics that discusses some of the other false claims in the gun control group's high school commencement hoax. I recently drove 950 miles to give the keynote commencement address at an online high school based in Las...
Here is the story of the elaborate hoax by a gun control organization that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. If I had done this to gun-control organization, where I refused to release the original video, I suspect that the media would have reacted very differently....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill that covers recent attacks against U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez’s decision to strike down California’s Assault Weapon Ban has caused some gun controllers to lose their minds. California...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about the Democrats push to eliminate voter IDs and force mail-in ballots. The American media keeps telling us two “facts.” Voter ID laws are “racist,” and election fraud claims are “false” and “baseless.” The New York Times...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Missoulian responding to a news article attack on him. The Missoulian’s initial report on there being thousands more recorded votes than envelopes for the ballots from Missoula County’s November all-mail-in election was largely a...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. For decades, gun control advocates constantly claim that Right-to-Carry laws would lead to disaster. But when disasters don’t occur they move on to the next prediction of disaster. We have to keep track of these predictions...
Dr. John Lott submitted a letter to The Economist magazine about false claims that they made about Constitutional Carry (“Permitless-carry gun laws are misguided and should be scrapped,” May 8, 2021). The Economist didn't accept the letter for publication, but here is...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on media bias. Last Friday, anti-Semitic thugs attacked a Jewish family, yelling “Free Palestine!,” “Die Jew!” “F– you Jew,” and “I’m gonna rape your wife.” Fortunately, an armed driver was able to stand between the attackers...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Billings Gazette and the Montana Standard (Butte) on Senator Jon Tester pushing for the new background check bill before the Senate. Let’s say a stalker threatens a female friend of yours. She asks you late one evening if she can...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on Biden's comments over the last few days about police being systemically racist. President Biden claimed that Derek Chauvin's conviction on Tuesday "ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic...