Dr. John Lott and Kerry Slone, our new Director for Education, will give talks in Brazil and Ecuador over the next two weeks.
Brazil
Fox News: Firearms expert taunts pro-gun control academics with bet on rising crime: Gun ownership increased sixfold under former Brazilian President Bolsonaro, homicides dropped 34%
Fox News has a news article on a bet that Dr. John Lott offered twelve prominent pro-gun control academics. He wrote about this offer in The Federalist and in the piece he deals with the claims made below by a couple of the academics. A gun expert is asking academics...
Correspondence with 12 Gun-Control Advocates regarding Bet on Brazil’s Firearm Ban
Dr. John Lott contacted 12 prominent gun-control advocate academics, and he offered a $1,000 bet on if Brazil’s homicide rate would go up or down during the first two years of the bans that President Lula has implemented. Here are the records of the correspondence...
At the Federalist: If Brazil’s Firearm Ban Is So Great, Why Won’t Gun-Control Activists Bet On It?
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. Copies of the correspondence are available here. This piece also appeared in American Liberty. “I contacted 12 prominent gun-control advocates…I offered a $1,000 bet on if Brazil’s homicide rate would go up or down...
Text of Lula’s Executive Order on Guns and Ammunition from January 1st
The original text in Portuguese of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's first executive order is available here. The order represents a dramatic change in the regulations dealing with guns and ammunition. An English translation of the order is available...
At Real Clear Politics: A Response to the Media on Brazil
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on what is happening in Brazil. The piece also appeared in The Epoch Times. . Although one wouldn’t know it from the media coverage of gun control, the best social science has shown that law-abiding citizens...
Talk in Brazil about that country’s experience with loosening gun control laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pav1XCHqYiM Dr. John Lott spoke in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, on August 4th, 2022. His speech focused on Brazil's experience with loosening gun control laws. It expanded on the piece that he recently published in the Wall Street...
Responses to our Wall Street Journal article on the plummeting murder rates in Brazil and our response to them
Dr. John Lott's June 26th op-ed in the Wall Street Journal generated three different letters to the editor. In “More Legal Guns Reduced Crime in Brazil” (op-ed, June 27), John Lott Jr. suggests that loosening gun restrictions in Brazil has led to a precipitous drop in...
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight Uses Our Wall Street Journal Op-ed on Brazil’s drop in crime as the basis for Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JpKG8PODdg4 Tucker Carlson interviews Eduardo Bolsonaro, adviser to his father, President Jair Bolsonaro, about Brazil's gun policies on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' The numbers and discussion in the interview are clearly...
In the Wall Street Journal: More Legal Guns Reduced Crime in Brazil
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Wall Street Journal that questions the apocalyptic predictions by Biden and others over guns after the US Supreme Court decision on New York's concealed handgun law. . ‘Lives are on the line,” President Biden said after the Supreme...
Remember all the experts who said that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s relaxing gun control would lead to more murder?
Brazil DataDownload When Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro promised to ease gun regulations and let more people own guns the media and the “experts” they talked to thought it would lead to more homicides/murders. Well, it didn’t turn out that way. Things are still...
Remember all the experts who said that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s to relax gun control would lead to more murder?
When Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro promised to ease gun regulations and let more people own guns the media and the "experts" they talked to thought it would lead to more homicides/murders. Well, it didn't turn out that way. Things are still early and other factors...