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...
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At the New York Daily News: Twitter’s debate-chilling problem: The social media site’s arbitrary policies allow foreign nations to censor American — often without explanation
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the New York Daily News about Twitter locking the CPRC Twitter account. I am the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, whose account Twitter locked because it tweeted a link to a Daily News article that I wrote...
At the Daily Caller: Here’s Why A Universal Background Check Law Would Be Bad
Nikki Goeser, our executive director, has a new op-ed at the Daily Caller. Her piece starts this way: Since the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, many politicians have claimed that a federal law mandating universal background checks — which would apply to...
At National Review: ‘Red Flag’ Laws Are the Wrong Solution to Mass Shootings
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie have another op-ed out. This one at National Review: Everyone is sick of mass public shootings in the United States. Enough is enough. Everyone, including us, is incredibly frustrated. But let’s do something that doesn’t...
At Townhall.com: Here’s Something You Won’t Hear About on the Shootings
Dr. John Lott has a piece at Townhall that starts this way: Here is something that you won’t hear on the news. The Dayton mass shooter who left nine people dead and some 27 people injured was a registered Democrat, a self-described “leftist” who hated Donald Trump,...
In the Washington Times: Media bias and the gun control debate
Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new op-ed at the Washington Times. Media bias has a huge impact on the gun control debate. The entire debate would be dramatically different if at least three points about mass public shootings ever got...
At Townhall: Ilhan Omar Defended by Media and Fact Checkers
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) comments about terrorism. The piece starts this way: As if Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) hasn’t already said enough controversial things, a new video surfaced this week of an old interview with her on...
At Townhall.com: No, Kamala, Your Gun Policies Wouldn’t Have Stopped Aurora
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about recent comments by Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-Ca). Another day, another push for more gun control. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-Ca) used the seventh...
At Townhall.com: National Train a Teacher Day
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall about teachers across the country getting training to protect their schools. The piece starts this way: This weekend hundreds of teachers across the country will be getting training to carry concealed handguns at school....
In the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Gun Control in Virginia’s Special Legislative Session
Dr. John Lott and State Sen. Dick Black (R-Loudoun) have a short discussion in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about the special legislative session this past week on gun control. The tragedy at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center fits an all too familiar pattern — yet...
In the New York Daily News: Punished for tweeting the truth
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the New York Daily News. The piece starts this way: Twitter has locked my account. I can’t post anything or read messages from other users. The reason? In March, I tweeted that the perpetrator of the New Zealand mosque shooting...
At the Washington Post: What the media miss when talking about guns
Dr. John Lott and Richard H. Black, who represents Loudoun County in the Virginia Senate, have an op-ed at the Washington Post on the Virginia Beach shooting and the after math this coming week with legislation during the special session in Virginia. The op-ed at...








