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 …...
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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...
At Townhall.com: Bernie Sanders Misleading Narrative on Communist Cuba
This piece draws on research that Dr. John Lott did regarding the substitutability between using the police state and indoctrination to control citizens. The piece at Townhall starts this way: With Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) becoming the odds on favorite to win the...
In the Wall Street Journal: Campaign-Finance Laws Created Candidate Bloomberg: They don’t level the field; they tilt it to the advantage of billionaires, especially if they own media firms.
Dr. John Lott and Brad Smith have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the harm created by campaign finance laws. Since campaign finance laws carry criminal penalties, they are something that interests the Crime Prevention Research Center. The laws create a very...
At Fox News: Bloomberg’s 2016 comments degrading farmers are totally off-base
Dr. John Lott's piece on Michael Bloomberg's latest comments are available here. After a series of racist comments, Bloomberg has created trouble for himself with comments on farmers. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders...
Mayor Pete’s lies on Guns
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Townhall.com on Mayor Pete Buttigieg starts this way: One of the Democrats’ favorite talking points on gun control that we don’t need military weapons of war on America’s streets. Former mayor Pete Buttigieg has been the most effective...






