Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Missoulian that discusses how the Biden administration is using financial regulations to achieve gun control and destroy the US domestic oil and gas production. Some Democrats are pushing back on President Biden’s plan to buy oil...
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On Chicago’s WIND-AM: Analyzing guns sales and crime rates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiLu9MacxAc Dr. John Lott talked with Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on Chicago's top morning radio talk show on WIND-AM. They discussed the claim that increased gun sales were responsible for the rise in violent crime over the last two...
Only 15.6% of likely voters think that strict gun laws in most major cities are making the retail crime surge better
A new poll by the Trafalgar Group of 1,076 likely general election voters from December 17th to the 21st shows that large numbers of likely Democrat, Republican, and independent voters find strict gun laws ineffective or even harmful. While a plurality thinks that gun...
Saule Omarova, Biden’s nominee to head, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, called for the “debanking” of what she called “socially sub-optimal industries”
While some focus on Biden's nominee to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, education in the former Soviet Union and claims that she is a Marxist, she is in favor of using the “debanking” of what she called “socially sub-optimal...
On America’s Voice Live To Discuss the 2 million people now on the Terror Watch List
Dr. John Lott joined Steve Gruber to discuss the 2 million people who are now on the Terror Watch List and Democrats' desire to ban people on the list from buying guns. America's Voice Live Wed August 25 2021 from 1216 to 1212 PM
Gallup: Almost no Americans naming guns as the nation’s top problem, one-fourth the number who say that crime/violence is the most important problem
In July 2021, A Gallup poll showed that only 1% of Americans named guns/gun control the most important problem facing the country. Nor is that any unusual polling result. By contrast, 4% of Americans viewed crime/violence as the most important problem. Even the...
Biden administration increasing the cost of ammunition, one of the many ways Biden seeks to reduce gun ownership by making it more costly
The president has the power to ban the importation of guns and ammunition, and he is exercising it for ammunition. This new rule will make already costly and difficult to obtain ammunition even more difficult to find. This is part of Biden's policy to reduce gun...
Predictions that Democrats will gut Filibuster so that they can pass gun control regulations
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer predicts Democrats will bypass bipartisanship to push through gun control legislation after deadly shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado.
UPDATED: Cracks start appearing in Senator Joe Manchin’s promise to keep his filibuster pledge
With House Democrats passing two major gun control bills, the push for gun control moves to the Senate. With all the Senate Democrats and some Republicans supporting more gun control, whether gun control passes Congress depends on if the Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV)...
How Democrats in Washington plan to get gun control passed, Gun Control Groups have major meeting with the Biden Administration
Now that Democrats control both Congress and the presidency they have been explaining how they are going be able to get gun control legislation passed. With Michael Bloomberg having spent over $600 million pushing for Biden to become president (over $125 million just...
On One America News: Biden’s Gun Control Plan during his first 100-days and is Democrats’ Impeachment of Trump Constitutional?
Dr. John Lott is interviewed by One America News' Graham Ledger (interview starts at about the 21:18 mark). They start talking about the gun control issue at the 27:15 mark. From One America News: The Democrat party is so afraid of Donald Trump that its leadership in...
At Real Clear Politics: The Flawed Thinking Behind Biden’s Gun Control Bill
Dr. John Lott discusses Joe Biden's top legislative priority for gun control during his first 100 days. Besides Real Clear Politics, the piece was published in Epoch Times and The Sun Times (Fairfield, Connecticut). “The coming years will decide the survival of our...