This letter was submitted to the New York Times Dear Letters Editor: There’s a serious flaw in John Donohue and Theodora Boulouta’s claims about the 1994 assault weapons ban ("That Assault Weapon Ban? It Really Did Work,” September 4). There are few actual “assault...
A Chicago Sun-Times editorial had the headline: "One brave rescue of a Cicero cop doesn’t justify concealed guns." The Sun-Times continues to fight against the notion of permitted concealed handguns. Here is part of their piece: Hang your argument on a single...
The Star Tribune published an op-ed attacking Dr. John Lott for a talk that he had given in Lakeville, Minnesota on February 23rd. The attacks weren't of much substance. This letter appeared on March 1st. Paul Shambroom’s Feb. 27 commentary about the Lakeville...
Last December 5th, the New York Times had yet another editorial making false claims about guns. The information from the Violence Policy Center has been recycled over and over again every few months by them. We have written numerous letters to the editor...
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...
Scientific American recently ran a 6,000-word article claiming that more guns mean more crime by Melinda Wenner Moyer, who works for Michael Bloomberg's The Trace. Dr. John Lott wrote a letter responding to some of the many errors and the author wrote a response to...
The Los Angeles Times had a news article by Lauren Rosenblatt attacking Dr. John Lott's testimony to the President's Election Integrity Commission. John Lott, head of the gun rights advocacy group Crime Prevention Research Center, suggested such a process would ease...
Julie Wise, the King County Elections Director, had an op-ed attacking Dr. John Lott's testimony One particularly egregious presentation was given by Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center. Relying on data from 1996 to 2004, Lott made the case that...
Philip Bump had an article in the Washington Post attacking Dr. John Lott's testimony before the president's Election Integrity Commission. The Post did not publish Lott's letter, but this is what was sent in: Dear Letters Editor: Philip Bump doesn’t understand how...
On September 12, 2017, the Washington Post's Christopher Ingraham had an article attacking Dr. John Lott's testimony before the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (video is available here and Lott's op-ed on the testimony is here). Here is part of...
UPDATE: The Des Moines Register has published a debate that we have had in the pages of their Sunday paper over the last couple of weeks. Original post: This past Wednesday the Des Moines Register ran an editorial calling for more gun control as a way of saving...
Dr. John Lott wrote a letter to the Arizona Capitol Times responding to a news article on August 11th titled "Controversial researcher hired to update prison population study." Dr. Lott's response is available here (published online August 17, 2017): Dear Editor: A...