Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall about the fundamental differences in how Democrats and Republicans handle the Coronavirus crisis. If you want to see the difference in how President Trump and the Democrats handle the coronavirus, you don’t have to look any...
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At Townhall: In Defense of Congressman Thomas Massie
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall in defense Congressman Thomas Massie. Massie is the chair of Congress' Second Amendment Caucus and someone who Dr. Lott has co-authored six op-eds with. Lott's piece starts this way: For a while last week, Congressman Thomas...
At National Review: Are Gun Stores ‘Essential’ Businesses? Yes, especially when jails and prisons are releasing inmates early.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review on states closing gun stores by claiming that they are "non-essential." Law-abiding citizens want the right to buy a gun, especially in the midst of a pandemic. Police have stopped responding to many 911 calls, and...
At Townhall: Will the Coronavirus Recede as the Spring Arrives?
UPDATE: Even as recently as at least March 31st, the government was still assuming that the Coronavirus is seasonal. "The models predictions have the surge in deaths going into the summer." ORIGINAL: Professor Timothy Craig Allen, a number of our Board of Directors...
At Townhall: Gun Sales Soar When People Need Protection
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about the surge in gun sales. Police are cutting back on policing, and Americans are getting scared. Along with toilet paper, they are also buying guns and ammunition. Some are getting concealed handgun permits.“So American …...
At the Washington Times: Democratic presidential candidates incite panic to buy guns not the coronavirus
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at the Washington Times on the increase in gun sales that has occurred over the five or so months. Crises increase gun sales. So, people don’t have to look far right now for an explanation for the recent surge in purchases. But the...
At Townhall: Errors in Bidens’ Big Speech on the Coronavirus
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall.com on the enforcement aspects of the Coronavirus. In 2014, former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously attacked then-Vice President Joe Biden as “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security...
At Townhall.com: Quantifying How Well the Trump Administration Is Doing on Coronavirus
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall.com that starts this way. The debate over the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus (COVID-19) is remarkably devoid of hard data comparisons. With President Trump’s decision on Wednesday to expand travel...
At Townhall: Bloomberg’s Campaign Spending Will Continue Through His ‘News’ Organization
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed up at Townhall.com on how Michael Bloomberg gets around the campaign finance regulations and how useless those regulations are. His newest piece at Townhall starts this way. With Michael Bloomberg dropping out of the Democratic...
At National Review: Biden, Beto, and Gun Control: They want to take your firearms away and make no bones about it
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review on Joe Biden's decision to pick Beto O'Rourke to head his gun-control effort. November 2020 will be known as the gun-control election.Tuesday night, former Vice President Joe Biden announced that Beto O’Rourke “will be...
At the Daily Caller: Democrats’ Selective Concern Over Voter IDs
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have an op-ed at the Daily Caller on Democrats’ Selective Concern Over Voter IDs. They seem to believe that free voter IDs interfere with people's right to vote, but costly IDs and lots of other fees aren't important...
At Townhall: Fact-Checking the Democrat Presidential Debate on Guns
Dr. John Lott wrote a piece for Townhall that fact-checked some of the claims made during the Democrat presidential debate on Tuesday night in Charleston, South Carolina. The piece starts this way: For once, a gun control claim was too much for even the media...




