Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Two weeks ago, the PEW Research Center released a survey showing that gun ownership by households is up to 44% — a 7-percentage point increase in the past two years. Another 5% of households won’t reveal...
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CPRC in the New York Post: “Sorry, Hillary: Trump’s policies are clearly better for blacks”
Dr. John Lott's latest op-ed at the New York Post starts this way: Hillary Clinton claims that some of Donald Trump’s appeal is “xenophobic, racist, misogynistic.” On Thursday she asked, “If he doesn’t respect all Americans, how can he serve all Americans?” But who...
CPRC at Fox News: Trump foes miss the mark on Clinton’s Second Amendment stand
Dr. John Lott's new piece at Fox News was on the top of the Front page and it was for at least the last two hours the most read article on the entire website. The piece starts this way: Donald Trump keeps saying that Hillary Clinton wants to “essentially abolish the...
CPRC at National Review: “The Myth of the Big Bad Gun Lobby”
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at National Review Online starts this way: As far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, the NRA gets its way only by intimidating elected officials. In an interview with Newsweek last week, Clinton claimed that the NRA uses campaign donations...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers: “Trump wasn’t calling for Clinton’s assassination”
Dr. John Lott's new piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way: Was Donald Trump calling for Hillary Clinton's assassination when he spoke on Tuesday in North Carolina? The New York Times sure seems to think so. This was Trump's apparently offensive quote:...
CPRC at National Review: “Hillary Refuses to Seek the Endorsement of Police Unions”
Dr. John Lott's news article at the National Review starts this way: The Democratic party has clearly put itself in the position of being the anti-law-enforcement party. On Friday, Hillary Clinton told the 335,000-member National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP)...
CPRC at Fox News: “Why is Apple so afraid of a little picture of a gun?”
Dr. John Lott has his newest piece at Fox News on Apple's decision to replace its emoji picture of a handgun with a water pistol. The piece starts this way: Apple’s next iPhone and iPad operating system will no longer feature an emoji picture of a handgun. In its...
CPRC at Fox News: “It’s about time for Texas’ guns on campus law”
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Fox News on the new Texas law going into effect on Monday starts this way: Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 sniper shooting that left 14 dead at the University of Texas at Austin. The killer, a former marine, murdered his...
CPRC in the Los Angeles Times: “We adjust for population with murder rates. Why not for mass shootings?”
Dr. John Lott's newest piece in the Los Angeles Times describes research in his new book, The War on Guns. Many believe that the United States is unique in terms of mass public shootings. Even after the attacks last November that left 130 dead in Paris, President...
CPRC at Fox News: “Do Democrats want to disarm minorities?”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox New on the Democratic National Convention: On Tuesday night, the mother of Trayvon Martin praised Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia for having “the courage to lead the fight for common-sense gun...
CPRC at the National Review: Gun Control Is Not the Answer to Shootings that Kill Police Officers
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at National Review starts this way: Democrats keep using shootings of police officers to push for more gun control. Having just arrived in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention, the Reverend Jesse Jackson complained on...
CPRC in The Weekly Standard: “When the subject is guns, politics trumps history,” reviewing Pamela Haag’s book “The Gunning of America”
Shots Fired When the subject is guns, politics trumps history. AUG 01, 2016 | By JOHN R. LOTT JR. Pamela Haag calls gun makers “merchants of death." And America's love affair with guns, she says, didn't really start until the late 1800s, when the "merchants of death"...