Dr. John Lott has a new piece at National Review on what the movie Miss Sloane and the election results tell us about where the gun debate stands. The piece starts this way: Miss Sloane, a highly anticipated movie demonizing the NRA and calling for gun...
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CPRC at Fox News: “The real truth about Facebook’s ‘fake news’ filters”
Dr. John Lott as another piece at Fox News on some of the false statements that fact checkers have made about guns, crime, taxes, and vote fraud. To protect Americans against “fake” news, Facebook will now use filters so that only “reputable” articles can appear at...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: The Mainstream Media are the real purveyors of Fake News
Dr. Lott has a new piece at the Daily Caller that start this way: Democrats and their media allies are trying everything they can to delegitimize Trump’s election. It started with a series of hopeless recounts, and now they claim that Russia hacked Democrat emails. ....
CPRC in the Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) debating Campus Carry
Dr. John Lott debated Ohio State Rep. Kristin Boggs (D) about whether college campuses should be gun-free zones in the pages of the Columbus Dispatch. Rep. Boggs' piece is available here. Dr. Lott's is here: Ohio State University is still reeling from the attack...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Bloomberg has little to show for millions spent on gun control”
Dr. John Lott had a new op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the truly massive amount of money that Michael Bloomberg is spending pushing gun control. If it wasn't for Michael Bloomberg's billions, there wouldn't be much of a gun-control movement. This year,...
CPRC at National Review: “Hack Journalism about an Unhacked Election”
Dr. John Lott has this new piece at National Review: With the presidential-vote recount under way in Wisconsin, hopeful leftists would have us believe that the Russians, or some other unknown entity, hacked electronic voting machines in Wisconsin and...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: “It’s Delusional To Think That Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist”
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Daily Caller on the attacks that The media is incredulous that Donald Trump claims that there was significant voter fraud in the election. Politico calls his claim “baseless” and “stunning.” The Los Angeles Times headline...
CPRC in the Washington Post and many other newspapers: “It’s already too late for gun control to work”
Dr. John Lott had a piece at the Washington Post today: It seems obvious: Restrict gun access, and people will be safer. Indeed, in all four presidential debates, Hillary Clinton and running mate Tim Kaine have pushed for background checks on private transfers of...
CPRC in National Review: “Vote Fraud is Not a Myth”
Dr. John Lott had a piece in National Review on a different type of crime (vote fraud). Democrats keep claiming that voter fraud is a myth. But voter fraud has mattered in plenty of American elections. Take Lyndon Johnson’s election to the U.S. Senate in 1948, when...
CPRC at Real Clear Policy: “The Government May Be Allowed to Ban Books and Movies”
Dr. John Lott and Professor Bradley Smith have a piece at Real Clear Policy about campaign finance laws and the implication: Believe it or not, this election will determine whether political appointees can prohibit books and movies released during election years that...
CPRC in the Reno Gazette-Journal: “Mistakes, consequences if Question 1 passes”
With the latest polls showing Bloomberg's initiative on gun control a much closer race, 49% for Bloomberg initiative and 45% against (from CBS Channel 8 in Las Vegas), this piece will help voters make a better informed decision. From today's Reno Gazette-Journal:...
CPRC in the Washington Post: “There is no particular risk in allowing concealed carry on campus”
Dr. John Lott had a letter in the Washington Post responding to a piece in the previous Sunday's paper by Daniel Webster and Ronald Daniels. The letter is as follows: In their Oct. 23 Sunday Opinion essay, “Guns on campus only invite tragedies,” Daniel Webster and...



