Dr. John Lott commented on the Obama administration's gun control conference earlier this week. His piece starts this way: At a White House conference on Tuesday with representatives of state and local law enforcement from all 50 states, Vice President Joe...
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Daily Caller deals with the current gun debate: The media — from fact checkers to late night talk shows — has had a field day claiming that Trump is making false statements on guns. The media ought to have lost credibility by now. Last...
CPRC's John Lott has a new piece at National Review on Hillary Clinton's views on gun control. What does Hillary Clinton really believe on guns? This year, she is running to the left of Bernie Sanders. In 2008, she ran well to the right of Obama, arguing against any...
This is John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily: President Obama wants to put gun dealers out of business. When he was a state senator in Illinois, he supported a ban on the sale of handguns and all semi-automatic guns as well as a ban on selling guns...
CPRC has a new piece at Investor's Business Daily on the Capitol shooting on Monday: Like so many mass public shootings, the gunman who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Monday first tried shooting a uniformed officer. Fortunately, the lone gunman was quickly subdued and...
Nikki Goeser & Dr. John Lott op-ed featured in The Tennessean (March 15, 2016) Democrats sure seem worried that there will soon be no safe place left for them in Nashville. The Legislative Plaza and the War Memorial Building, where state legislators have their...
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. ...
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...
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...
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.”...
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,...
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...