Shannon Watts and the Bloomberg groups are taking credit for Jason Aldean being cancelled on Country Music Television for his song "Try that in a Small Town." They were very upset about the reference to guns in the song: "Got a gun that my granddad gave me." Watts...
Dr. John Lott recently went to Oregon to testify before their state Senate about SB 348, which would amend Measure 114, which barely passed this past November. The Democrats wouldn't allow Lott to testify in the invited session, despite Lott being the only expert...
Originally posted at 11:04 AM on Thursday, June 24th, 2021. Dr. John Lott is always happy to debate these various gun control organizations, but they refuse to debate. Instead, they have to rely on this trickery where they can completely control the discussion.“As a...
When will all those gun control advocates and reporters who rely on criminologist Adam Lankford's research begin asking him to answer questions about his research? Despite getting massive international news coverage and then President Obama frequently basing his...
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...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Washington Times about how gun control advocates refuse to debate gun control: When you receive glowing media attention and have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, you don’t really have to debate. Michael Bloomberg just...
Dr. John Lott talked to Alan Stock on the big 50,000 watt KXNT about Michael Bloomberg's new gun control initiative. Bloomberg is spending $20 million in Nevada and another $7 million in Maine on these initiatives through the end of October, but despite that, the...
Dr. John Lott spoke with host Alan Stock about the real issues with many gun control proposals. A lengthy discussion takes place about Question 1 ( the gun-control ballot initiative financed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and out-of-state anti-gun...
Sources mentioned in debate: References to other research available here. Accidental shootings on college campuses by concealed handgun permit holders is here. Revocation rates for college age students compared to other permit holders is here. Correcting...
From C-SPAN: "John Lott talked about the new study put out by Pew Research Center which finds that support for gun rights have increased and, for the first time, protecting gun rights is more important than controlling ownership." Lott was originally supposed to be on...
CPRC's John Lott appeared on John Stossel's show to discuss people's fears about guns and analyze two television ads put out by Michael Bloomberg's gun control groups. John Stossel's show invited Bloomberg's various gun control organizations to send a representative...
I was basically going to ignore this, but I got an email today from a student at Dickinson College named David Milstein who had been trying for many weeks to arrange a debate for me on his college. David informed me that the gun control groups would not participate in...