Dr. John Lott has his newest piece in The Hill newspaper on fake news in the media. It starts this way: Time-after-time, the New York Times and other publications have repeated the same false claim that concealed handgun permit holders are dangerous. This claim will...
Dr. John Lott has started as a contributor for The Hill newspaper, which is read by members of Congress and their staff, though it has a somewhat broader audience. Lott's first piece is on the Democrats consistently pushing fees and taxes that make it difficult for...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in Real Clear Politics today on our work on the concentration of murder and gun ownership in the US. The vast majority of murders in the United States occur in just a tiny percentage of counties. In fact, the country can be divided up into...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Washington Times about how gun control advocates refuse to debate gun control: When you receive glowing media attention and have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, you don’t really have to debate. Michael Bloomberg just...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on a bill before the Pennsylvania state Senate on allowing permitted concealed handguns in public schools. Gov. Wolf wants to protect schools from mass public shootings by hiring “trained security...
Dr. Lott has a new piece in the Daily Caller The media is apoplectic that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has criticized the federal judge in Hawaii who suspended President Donald Trump’s revised executive order on visas and refugees. Sessions offending statement? “I...
Dr. John Lott has another piece at Real Clear Policy on Judge Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court. Why are Democrats filibustering Judge Gorsuch, a Supreme Court nominee who has received accolades from even some of the most partisan, liberal lawyers? But...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Washington Times: Protection orders are pieces of paper that can only do so much to keep women safe from violent men. But at the end of March, Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe vetoed a bill that would allow domestic...
Dr. John Lott has a new Fox News piece on Judge Neil Gorsuch's confirmation: Some ask why Democrats are filibustering Judge Gorsuch, who has received accolades from even some of the most partisan, liberal lawyers. But a clash is inevitable — if not over this Supreme...
Dr. John Lott's newest piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way: Last week, government officials banned most carry-on electronic devices from U.S.-bound flights originating in more than a dozen Middle Eastern and African countries. The reason was due to an...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the New York Daily News on why NPR and PBS should not get public subsidies. It talks a little about NPR's biases in covering the gun issue. The piece starts this way: Whatever original purpose public broadcasting had back in 1969,...
On March 10th, Rachael Joseph, the Director of Outreach for Protect Minnesota and who works with Bloomberg's Everytown, had a piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune attacking Dr. John Lott. The piece was supposedly about Lott's op-ed on Stand Your...