Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. With the narrowest of Senate majorities, President Biden is remaking the federal courts at a record-breaking rate. Biden has successfully confirmed twice as many federal Circuit and District Court judges as any modern...
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At the Federalist: Our $28 Trillion National Debt Is Coming Due
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist on our exploding national debt and what it means for the US. While this is off topic for what the CPRC does, we thought that it still might be of interest. Last September, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)...
At Townhall: Twitter Still Blocking Information on Crimes by Leftists
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall.com. In Twitter debates, people have no problem pointing to articles such as Newsweek’s: “White Supremacists Killed More Americans Than Muslim Extremists in Recent Years.” The article explains, “The mass shootings...
At Townhall.com: Mexico’s Dishonest Lawsuit Against American Gun Makers
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. President Biden keeps telling Americans that gunmakers are “exempt from being sued. … This is the only outfit that is exempt from being sued.” Apparently, someone forgot to tell the Mexican government about that.Last week,...
At the Billings Gazette: Chipman is a radical gun-control supporter
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Billings Gazette (Billings, Montana). President Biden has had little trouble getting even his most controversial nominees confirmed. Democrats, including Montana Senator Jon Tester, have all voted in unison. Only Neera Tanden,...
At Townhall: Why are Red State Democratic Senators Voting for David Chipman?
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on David Chipman's confirmation vote. President Biden has had little trouble getting even the most controversial nominees confirmed.Democrats have voted in unison, with only Neera Tanden, Biden’s pick to head his budget...
At Real Clear Politics: Biden Reveals His True Goal: To Ban Most Guns
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics and the South Dade News Leader (Dade County, Florida) about Biden's recent statements about gun control. If there was any doubt that President Biden wants to ban the vast majority of guns in the United States, he...
At Townhall: Biden’s Focus on Gun Crime Ignores Almost All Violent Crime
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...
At the Tennessean: I fought for a lifetime order of protection to help other Tennessee crime victims
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...
At Real Clear Politics: Gun-Death Hoax Faked the Facts, Which the Media Echoed
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...
At the Wall Street Journal: The School That Wasn’t There: I drove 950 miles to give a commencement address. It was an elaborate hoax by a gun-control organization.
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....
At The Hill: Where’s the defense of California judge?
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...







