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...
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At the Missoulian: Missoulian’s one-sided attack on credibility
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...
New piece at Townhall: Given Their Fear of Guns, How Have Professors Ever Gone Off Campus?
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...
Responding to false claims about Constitutional Carry in The Economist magazine
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...
At Townhall: Entertainment TV Shows Keep Pushing Lies About Guns
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...
In the Billings Gazette and Montana Standard (Butte): New Background Check Bill is Flawed
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...
At Real Clear Politics: Data Undercuts Myth of ‘Racism’ in Police Killings
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...
At Townhall: The Hysterical Reaction to the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Endangers Lives
Dr. John Lott and Dr. Timothy Craig Allen, who is both on our Board of Directors and a governor of the College of American Pathologists, have a new piece at Townhall on the inability of public health people to understand the notion of trade-offs. Pausing the Johnson...
At Real Clear Politics: Biden’s Gun Control Lies
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new op-ed There were so many lies in Vice President Kamala Harris’ and President Joe Biden’s presentations on guns Thursday that it is hard to know where to start. One thing is certain, though: The media...
At Townhall: Biden’s Many False Claims on Gun Violence
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. President Biden’s press conference on guns was filled with inaccuracies and false claims. Ironically, during the campaign last year, Biden disparaged the use of executive orders, “if you can’t get the votes … you can’t...
In the Missoulian: Problems with Ballots
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in today's Missoulian about the problems with Missoula's mail-in vote problems. All the documentary information is available at the end of the link here. Montana got to see firsthand how well a mail-in election goes. If the results from...
At Newsweek: Montana Ballot Audit Shows the Risks of Mail-in Vote Fraud
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Newsweek on the alleged mail-in vote fraud in Montana. House Democrats are intent on making mail-in voting permanent and widespread. They passed and sent to the Senate an election reform bill—the For the People Act—that would force...






