On Monday, October 21st, Dr. John Lott will debate Pennsylvania state Senator Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery County) about Red Flag Laws and Universal Background Checks. The debate will be held at the Widener Law School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and will go from 4:30 to 5:45 PM. The address for the law school is 3800 Vartan Way, Harrisburg, PA, and it is sponsored by the school’s Federalist Society.…
The Federalist Society’s Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group sponsored a debate between Dr. John Lott and the Heritage Foundation’s Amy Swearer on Red Flag Laws. While Swearer believes that Red Flag Laws need to be part of the process, Dr. Lott argues that it makes a lot more sense to use the Baker Act/302s that are already in place and have extensive civil rights protections as a starting point for any new proposals.…
Dr. John Lott debated Michael Shermer at FreedomFest in July 19, 2019. Because of copyright restrictions this post only provides Dr. Lott side of the presentation. Dr. Lott won the audience vote by 83% to 17% and won the jury vote by 10 to 2.
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Steven “Destiny” Bonnell and Dr. John Lott debated gun control on the Red Elephants and Destiny youtube channels. Mr. Bonnell has a large following by young people on social media. While this was billed as a debate, it turned into more of a discussion than a debate.
Among the links discussed during the debate were:
— The literature on Right-to-Carry Laws
— Paper cited by Bonnell claiming that Right-to-Carry Laws increase crime (here and here)
— New York Times piece on background checks
— The last annual report on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) system background checks
— Homicide rates before and after gun bans
— Regarding international homicide and firearm homicide data
The original posting of the debate is back up on YouTube and can be seen here.…
Dr. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, will be debating Paul Helmke, former president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence about gun control at Truman State University on Friday, February 8, 2019. The debate will be at 7 PM in the Baldwin Auditorium. Find details here.…
Dr. John Lott and Dr. Mike Weisser faced off in “The Great Gun Control Debate” at Northern Michigan University on March 28th, 2018. Unfortunately, the memory in the video camera was full so only half of Dr. Weisser’s talk was recorded.
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Turkish Television’s Newsmakers held a debate on gun control. The debate was between John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and Joel Rubin, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs during the Obama administration.
February 21, 2018
Survey data from PoliceOne for police generally and the National Association of Chiefs of Police are available here and here.…
Dr. John Lott debated Charles Blek from the Brady Campaign about gun control before the Southern California chapter of Junior State of America program. They covered a range of issues from background checks to concealed handgun laws. Lott’s presentation starts at 15:50 into the video. The debate took place on November 18, 2017 in Orange County, California. …
In November, Scientific American published a longer letter by Dr. John Lott and a rebuttal to his letter online. In an earlier post, we provided a point-by-point rebuttal to Ms. Moyer’s claims. Lott had no control over what parts of his letter that Scientific American decided to use.
…GUNS AND CRIME
Melinda Wenner Moyer’s article “Journey to Gunland” ignores virtually all of the literature on right-to-carry laws and gun ownership since 1998.
Dr. John Lott debated a lawyer from Nashville, David Randolph Smith, about whether drug addicts who have frequently failed to provide child support be given the option of birth control to reduce their sentences by 30 days. The debate took place on Wednesday, July 26th, on TRT World News.
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