Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new op-ed piece in the New York Daily News on the lessons from last week's school shooting in Kentucky. Here is how the piece starts: Before knowing almost anything about last Tuesday's mass public shooting at...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper on the question of what type of immigrants we want to let into the US. The piece starts this way: Is it racist to say that you would prefer immigrants coming to the U.S. who are well-educated, skilled, and...
Dr. John Lott had a piece in today's The Hill about media bias in Associated Press. One of the problems that one always has in showing media bias is knowing exactly what the author knew in putting the piece together. Was the author just uninformed or were they...
With all the discussions of whether people should carry their permitted concealed handguns with them to church, Dr. John Lott has this new piece in The Hill newspaper. The article starts this way: There are simply too many targets for police to be able to guard...
With all the discussions about people having guns at churches for self-defense, Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News that details some of the cases where people have used permitted concealed handguns to stop mass public shootings: Stephen Willeford’s heroic...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Daily News. The piece starts this way: Within hours of the slaughter of 26 people at the church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Democrats were calling for expanded background checks to cover the private transfers of guns....
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece up at Fox News on the reaction to the Texas church shooting. The piece starts this way: Before knowing almost anything about Sunday’s mass public shooting, gun control advocates are once again calling for more gun control. The...
In a new piece in The Hill, Dr. John Lott discusses the debate over what will stop attacks with vehicles, such as the one this week in New York City. With an attack that had been planned for over a year, the notion that you are going to be able to keep a killer like...
Dr. John Lott's latest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Angry that the federal government cut funding to Chicago, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) claimed the Trump administration is contributing to the city’s violence. “So far this year, 3,000 people have been...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News that is based upon our research done by the CPRC on police shootings. The piece starts as follow: The NFL players kneeling during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” in football stadiums across the country are...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at National Review responding to Bret Stephen column in the New York Times that calls for repealing the Second Amendment. His piece starts this way: Is support for gun ownership and the Second Amendment a “fetish”? Bret Stephens, a New...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Hill that discusses the huge push after the Las Vegas attack for background checks on private transfers. After the horrific Las Vegas attack, it is understandable that people feel an urgent need for action. For Democrats that means...