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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...