Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. Real Clear Politics also provided an alternative viewpoint from Bloomberg's Everytown. Lott's piece also appeared in the Epoch Times, Florida Daily, The Political Insider, and Zero Hedge. . A favorite talking point...
While there were about 3,839 suicides per year in Canada in 2020, there were 13,500 assisted suicides in Canada in 2022. With a population of about 38.25 million people, that implies an assisted suicide rate of 35.294 per 100,000 people. The total...
We have previously examined this rate from 2011 to 2015, but the above chart updates that data from 2016 to 2020. The FBI only has firearm murder data up through 2020. The average over the last five years is 67%, down slightly from the five-year average from 2011 to...
Tarek El Moussa and then-wife Christina separated following an incident in which she called the police to warn that her husband posed a risk with his gun. Tarek, a concealed handgun permit holder, had taken his gun with him when he went hiking. From the New York...
In an article that spends most of its time quoting gun control advocates' claims that gun ownership leads to suicide, one paragraph at the end of their long piece offered an alternative view by John Lott. These laws are wrongfully “assuming guns actually contribute to...
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily is available here: Which are you more likely to be killed by: a car or a gun? We all know how many people die on the roads each year, so it would be mindblowing if there were actually more gun deaths than motor...
In response to claims made before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the CPRC has pointed to that there is no evidence showing that background checks or waiting periods reduce any type of violent crime or total suicides. The case before the court is more specific than...