Dr. John Lott and Professor emeritus Joe Olson at the Mitchell-Hamline School of Law have an op-ed at Townhall.com. Last week, President Trump claimed the election will determine the future of private gun ownership in the United States. On Saturday, the NRA...
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At Newsweek: New York Abuses the Legal System to Target The NRA
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Newsweek. Gun rights have never been more at stake than in this November’s election, and Democrat politicians are now attempting to remove the NRA from the debate. At the very least, they want to run up the NRA’s legal bills so...
At National Review: Limiting Gun Rights While Defunding Police Is a Recipe for Disaster
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review. For years, gun-control advocates told people that it is the job of police to protect them. But now, the same people who want to ban gun ownership also want to defund and disarm the police, replacing them with...
At the Washington Times: How the liberal media, with Michael Bloomberg’s help, are biased against guns
Dr. John Lott has a piece at the Washington Times on how Michael Bloomberg biases the discussion about guns. Would Scientific American ever pay an NRA employee to write news articles about gun control? Never. But they and many other media outlets have no problem using...
At Real Clear Politics: News Outlets Turn a Blind Eye on The Trace’s Anti-Gun Bent
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. NPR, Politico, Time, and Scientific American are unlikely ever to pay an NRA employee to write news articles about gun control. But they have no problem hiring people who work for The Trace, a Michael...
At Real Clear Politics: Why the New York Times Capitulated
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on how what happened to Senator Tom Cotton at the New York Times is actually an all too common story. On Sunday, New York Times opinion editor James Bennet resigned after daring to publish an opinion column by...
At the Washington Times: Using the COVID-19 pandemic to justify a gun ban
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times on the claims being made by gun control advocates during the Coronavirus. Despite all the claims that gun control organizations only want “reasonable” gun control laws, the coronavirus pandemic has revealed that...
Bloomberg’s Everytown just makes up gun facts
Let us help out Michael Bloomberg's Everytown. For a group that claims to know a lot about guns, they apparently aren't familiar with one of the best selling books ever from the University of Chicago Press: "More Guns, Less Crime." There is also information from the...
At Fox News: Media exaggerate impact of US-Mexico border closure. UPDATE: Everytown attacks
Dr. John Lott's newest op-ed discusses the new media's grossly exaggerated costs from closing the U.S.-Mexico border. He also goes through some of our research regarding the costs of illegal aliens. (Not surprisingly, Everytown's paid PR secretary Adam Sege keeps...
Bloomberg’s Everytown former Research Director hired by New York Times to cover gun control issues
Bloomberg's Everytown former Research Director, Ted Alcorn, is now covering public health & safety reporting, obviously including gun control issues, for the New York Times. Does the New York Times think that hiring an activist like this helps with people's...
At The Hill: Gun control advocates are hyperventilating over Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination
Dr. John Lott's latest piece at The Hill is available here: Gun control advocates are hyperventilating over President Trump’s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun rights group, Everytown for Gun Safety, warned: “Judge...
Media Matters quotes Bloomberg supported researcher who calls for media to not talk to John Lott
There is a long history of those associated with Michael Bloomberg and other gun control groups refusing to debate Dr. John Lott. Here is one example at C-SPAN where Bloomberg's Everytown research director Ted Alcorn refused to debate. Other examples of...