Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall: President Biden’s remarks after the hostage situation at the synagogue in Texas leave more questions than answers..What were the motivations for the attack occur? A full day after a Pakistani Muslim attacked a synagogue on...
Rachel Morgan and Alexandra Thompson, "Criminal Victimization, 2020," Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, October 2021. Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the claims about increased gun sales causing an increase in violent crime. With...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. With the anniversary of January 6th this week, Democrats are using it to push massive election reforms. They claim the reforms are necessary to save Democracy. Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says the...
Here is an op-ed that I wrote with Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward (though you wouldn't know it until you get to the tag line at the end of the piece). It’s always the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from gun-control activists. They warn us of...
John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist about Gavin Newsom's promise to use the US Supreme Court decision on Texas' abortion law to push new gun control in California. You would never know it from the reaction of President Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom, but the...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed with Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini in the Orlando Sentinel and also the Daily Commercial and the Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville). Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics, Epoch Times, Capitol Hill Times, BYC Talk, and MSN about the call for gun control after the Oxford High School shooting. Shortly after the Oxford High School shooting last Tuesday, politicians started calling for...
Dr. John Lott and the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward have a piece in Newsweek. The same predictions of doom and bloodshed keep coming from gun-control activists. They warn us of pending disaster should Pennsylvania become the 22nd state to adopt...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about the Supreme Court's oral arguments about abortion on Wednesday. Over and over during the Supreme Court’s oral arguments on Wednesday about Mississippi’s new abortion law, Dobbs v. Jackson, those defending abortion argued...
Lori Saine and Dr. John Lott have an op-ed in the Greeley Tribune (Greeley, Colorado). A new Colorado Appeals court decision will almost surely lead to the state’s new Red Flag law being struck down. The law allows judges to confiscate people’s firearms on nothing...
The partisan divide on gun control has never been so large — 91% of Democrats and only 24% of Republicans support stricter laws.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and the biased media coverage of it. This past Thursday, YouGov released a poll showing that 76% of Democrats thought Kyle Rittenhouse was guilty of homicide. Only 5% believed that he was not...