Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com that starts way: It seems obvious: Restrict gun access and people will be safer. Everything from gun bans to background checks keep being pushed as the solutions.But theory and practice don’t always match. Too often...
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At Townhall.com: Republican Journalists Banned
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com about how the Democratic National Committee and some journalists are being very careful on who they will let ask the Democrat presidential candidates questions. The piece starts this way: Everyone knows that the Democratic...
At Townhall.com: After Another Mass Shooting, California Must Recognize Its Gun Control Laws May Actually Be Part of the Problem
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall.com on yesterday's school shooting. The piece starts this way: Another school shooting, this time by a 15-year-old at Saugus High School in California, another quest for answers. Yet, 20 years after Columbine, the...
In the Wall Street Journal: Mexico’s Soaring Murder Rate Proves Gun Control Is Deadly
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Wall Street Journal about Mexico's extremely high murder rate. Another month, another record number of murders in Mexico. For the first nine months of 2019, Mexico had 25,890 murders—almost six times as many murders per 100,000...
At Townhall: Felons Voting While In Prison In D.C.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the push in Washington, DC to let felons vote while they are still serving their sentence in prison. The piece starts this way: Washington, D.C.’s council seems posed to let felons vote while they are still...
New piece at Broad & Liberty: We don’t need Red Flag laws – we have the tools in place to help the mentally ill and protect people’s rights
Dr. John Lott has a piece at Broad & Liberty, a new opinion outlet in Philadelphia. Everyone wants to stop dangerous people from getting guns. The hot new policy option before this committee is Red Flag laws, which take away the guns of people deemed dangerous to...
At Townhall.com: Women, Minorities Fueling Increase in Concealed Handgun Permits
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall.com that starts this way: Each year brings a new record increase in the number of concealed handgun permits. The rate of growth in permits among women and minorities has far outpaced growth among white men. The data paint a...
At Townhall: The House Judiciary Committee’s Assault Weapons Ban Fallout
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall.com on the extreme statements by Democrats and their witnesses at last week's House Judiciary Committee hearing on banning assault weapons. The piece starts this way: If you want to see how extreme the Democrats have gotten on...
At Townhall: When Democrats Push For Universal Background Checks, The Danger Of A National Gun Registry Looms
Dt. John Lott and Andrew Pollack have an op-ed at Townhall.com that starts this way: When it comes to gun control, there’s one thing everyone can agree on: criminals and psychopaths shouldn’t be allowed to get guns. The real question is how to stop them. For...
At Townhall.com: Twitter’s Political Bias
Here are the two important paragraphs in Dr. John Lott's latest post. Twitter offered to unlock the accounts if I agree to a post saying that “your Tweet is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.” But Twitter refuses to explain why they locked our...
At Townhall.com: How the Opioid lawsuits are similar to the lawsuits that were brought against gun makers
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com that talks about the similarities between the opioid lawsuits and the lawsuits that had been raised against gun makers 20 years ago. The piece starts this way: When General Motors and Ford sell more cars, they are involved...
At Townhall: Kamala Harris’s Poorly Thought Out Gun Control Proposals
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall.com about Democrat gun control proposals. The piece starts this way: Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) took flak for politicizing the shooting of police in Philadelphia on Wednesday. She...