Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Newsweek after the public school shooting in Texas. Another horrible tragedy occurred on Tuesday with the attack on the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. With 19 elementary school students slain, President Joe Biden was right...
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At The Federalist: Data Shows White Supremacists Are Not The Most Likely Mass Murderers
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. In his Buffalo, New York speech last week following a mass shooting, President Biden showed he still has only two things on his mind regarding crime: guns and white supremacists..No one can defend white supremacists....
At Townhall: Media Falsely Claim Mass Public Shooters are ‘Right-wingers’ When They’re Environmental Extremists
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the Buffalo mass public shooting. If you believe the Los Angeles Times, the Buffalo shooter who left 10 dead emerged from “a far-right ecosystem.” A Rolling Stone headline echoed the claim: “The Buffalo Shooter Isn’t a...
At Real Clear Politics: When Misinformation Drives Bad Policy
The CPRC commissioned a survey by Real Clear Politics. Dr. John Lott wrote a new piece at Real Clear Politics on the survey evidence. To President Biden, public health researchers, and the media, violent crime is all about guns. But a new survey finds that people are...
At the Federalist: Roe Destroyed Many Social Institutions That Are Unlikely To Return
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist on the continuing abortion debate. With the news that the U.S. Supreme Court will likely overturn Roe v. Wade, commentary has largely concentrated on the moral issues, women’s desires to not bear a child to term, and...
At Real Clear Politics: NY Subway Shooting Raises Stakes in SCOTUS Decision NY Subway Shooting Raises Stakes in SCOTUS Decision
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on how the NYC Subway shooting will impact that U.S. Supreme Court case New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Bruen that deals with New York's May Issue concealed handgun...
At The Federalist: Montana’s 2020 Election Irregularities Are Still Unaddressed Despite Recounts Gone Wrong, Erased Records, And Suddenly Surfacing Ballots
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist about the problems with voting even in Montana. UPDATE: Even two days after the article was posted it was still the third most read article on The Federalist website. If we are going to avoid the type of debate that...
At the Tennessee Conservative: Legislation Would Ensure Some Criminals Serve 100% Of Their Sentence
The CPRC's Nikki Goeser has a new op-ed up at the Tennessee Conservative. There is legislation that is making its way through the state legislature called the Truth In Sentencing Bill that would expand the list of offenses that would mandate an inmate serve 100% of...
At the Montana Standard and the Missoula Current: Judge Jackson too soft on crime
Dr. John Lott at this piece in the Montana Standard (Butte, Montana) and the Missoula Current. If a criminal figures out a more effective way to break into people’s homes to steal more, should he receive a lighter sentence per dollar of what he steals? Biden’s nominee...
At Real Clear Politics: New Peer-Reviewed Research Finds Evidence of 2020 Voter Fraud
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. This piece discusses his forthcoming journal piece in Public Choice that measures vote fraud in the November 2020 presidential election. By a margin of 52% to 40%, voters believe that “cheating affected the...
In the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: ‘Constitutional’ gun carry helps law-abiding people defend themselves
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from law-abiding citizens having guns for protection. They warn us of pending disaster if Georgia becomes the 23rd...
At the Townhall: Democrats Nominate a Soft on Crime Person for the Supreme Court
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. If a criminal figures out a more effective way to break into people’s homes to steal more, should he receive a lighter sentence per dollar of what he steals? Biden’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown...