John Lott's newest piece at Fox News is on the extremely low quality of research by public health researchers starts this way: Academic advocates of gun control apparently need to manipulate the data in order to argue for background checks on private gun transfers. ...
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CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “Don’t Expect Supreme Or Appeals Court Confirmations In 2016”
John Lott has this latest column at Investor's Business Daily: By any measure, time has virtually run out for President Obama to nominate someone to the Supreme Court. What has gone unnoticed is that the problem of confirming judges during presidential election years...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “Obama Has Impacted The Courts, Scalia Replacement Or No”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily is as follows: Even if President Obama doesn’t get another appointment to the Supreme Court, he has already shaped the federal judiciary more than any president in decades. With almost a year to go, he already has...
CPRC at National Review: “What Obama Doesn’t Know about Firearms in the U.S. Military”
John Lott's newest piece at National Review is as follows: Does President Obama know anything about guns? Some really nonsensical rhetoric has come out of the president’s mouth. He’s said that political opponents of his support allowing “machine guns in bars.”...
CPRC at Fox News Opinion: Concealed carry permits help police officers and civilians stay in the fight
Dr. John R. Lott's latest piece at FOX NEWS Opinion (February 15, 2016) In the past month, criminals have murdered six police officers in the line of duty. The number might have been eight if not for the actions of two concealed handgun permit holders. At this rate,...
CPRC Op-ed in the Knoxville News Sentinel: “Gun-free zones increase danger for the public”
John Lott had an op-ed in the Knoxville News Sentinel (Knoxville, Tennessee) on February 13, 2016 that discussed his testimony before the Tennessee state Senate. Would you post a sign announcing that your home is a gun-free zone? Would you feel safer? Criminals don't...
CPRC at Investors Business Daily: “Even Liberal Academics Are Turning Pro-Gun Ownership”
John Lott's latest piece at Investors' Business Daily: From the left and right, people are bombarded with diametrically opposing claims on guns. But most of this bombardment isn’t coming from the National Rifle Association. Michael Bloomberg is spending far more...
CPRC correcting the Brady Campaign’s false claims in the New Hampshire Union Leader: “Clinton and the gun control lobby get it wrong”
With days before the New Hampshire primary, John Lott corrects what Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, recently wrote in the New Hampshire Union Leader attacking Bernie Sanders (Friday, February 4, 2016). Hillary Clinton has made gun...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “Gun Vs. Traffic Accident Deaths: Getting The Data Straight”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily is available here: Which are you more likely to be killed by: a car or a gun? We all know how many people die on the roads each year, so it would be mindblowing if there were actually more gun deaths than motor...
CPRC in the New York Post: “What Bernie Sanders misses about the rise in campaign cash” and why that is related to the gun control debate
With Michael Bloomberg spending hundreds of millions of dollars pushing gun control, the debate over campaign finance laws and gun control have become closely linked. Just this past November, Bloomberg spent 1/13th as much money on two state Senate races in Virginia...
CPRC at National Review: “A Semi-Automatic Handgun Ban Wouldn’t Stop Mass Shooters”
John Lott's newest piece at National Review starts this way: President Obama’s timing is off. Just as he tries to assure us that there’s no conspiracy to take away our guns, Democrats across the country are calling for banning most firearms. From Georgia to...
CPRC at LifeZette: “No, 90% Don’t Want More Background Checks”
John Lott has an op-ed at LifeZette on whether there is the claimed support for background checks on private gun transfers. Gun control advocates like President Obama keep claiming that 80 to 90 percent of Americans are in favor of expanded background check...