After President Trump met with members of Congress this past Wednesday to discuss gun control, Linda Qui at the New York Times wrote a "fact check" explaining why what he said was wrong. Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News that illustrates how poorly done and...
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At the Washington Times: “Media bias and guns”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Washington Times that discusses CNN's very biased Town Hall on guns last week. The piece begins this way: Americans might be divided on the issue of gun control, but CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night only featured questioners who...
At The Hill: Bloomberg’s claims on gun control fail to match the facts
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Hill newspaper on the continued false claims put out by Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety. The piece starts this way: Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety “is most famous for its running tally of school shootings,”...
“US gun control advocates exaggerate benefits of Australia’s gun restrictions”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News responding to all the false claims about how Australia's gun control laws are a model that the US should follow. This is from a much longer discussion in the book, The War on Guns, and see the data at the end of this post...
At The Hill: In anti-gun fever, media misses some crucial facts
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Hill that goes through all the miss information in last week's 60 Minutes program on CBS. It was one of the most biased programs on guns that we have ever seen, and that is quite an accomplishment. The piece starts this way:...
At Fox News: Florida shooting: Gun control advocates rush to distort the truth about what happened in Parkland
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News discussing how gun control advocates viciously attack their opponents and yet they are the ones who push gun control regulations that have nothing to do with stopping these attacks. The piece starts this way: Gun control...
Op-ed in the New York Times: Background Checks Are Not the Answer to Gun Violence
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the New York Times on some of the problems with background checks. The piece starts this way: With each mass shooting, calls rise from gun control advocates for tighter rules on firearms. The go-to policy prescription involves...
In the New York Daily News with Congressman Thomas Massie on Gun-free zones for schools
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...
In The Hill newspaper: “There’s nothing wrong with Trump’s desire for better immigrants”
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...
At The Hill: “The AP provides another example of how media pushes an anti-gun agenda”
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...
At The Hill: “It’s time for more parishioners to lock and load when they go to church”
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...
At Fox News: Good guys with guns saving lives
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...






