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...
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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...
CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: “Bloomberg Twists Gun Research To Political Ends”
John Lott's newest piece is on Michael Bloomberg's efforts to pollute the academic debate with false statistics. Michael Bloomberg keeps pouring $50 million into his Everytown organization to push gun control. That's just a portion of the money he's spending....
CPRC at the Daily Caller on Obama’s false statements during his CNN Townhall
John Lott's newest opinion piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: I wish that I had been able to go to CNN’s town hall with President Obama. But Thursday night’s event was invitation-only. Still, Anderson Cooper, the moderator, challenged the president a few...
CPRC in the National Review: Obama’s Gun-Control Order is Dictatorial, and it Won’t Work
President of Crime Prevention Research Center, Dr. John R. Lott Jr., has an op-ed piece out discussing Obama's Gun-Control orders and why they simply will not work. The op-ed starts like this Today, upset that Congress has refused, in his words, to do...
CPRC on Fox News: “Obama and guns: Eleven false or misleading claims from the president’s remarks this week”
John Lott has a new op-ed at Fox News that discusses some of the errors in Obama's talk on Tuesday. With tears in his eyes, President Obama pulled out all the stops in pushing his new executive orders on gun control this week. A Washington Post headline exclaimed,...
CPRC in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “Allow permit holders to carry guns on college campuses”
John Lott's op-ed with Michael Gordinier, who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (January 06, 2016): Would posting a “gun-free zone” sign in front of your home make you feel safer? Probably not. Criminals don’t...
CPRC at Fox News: “Open carry comes to Texas: Why the Lone Star state will be safer in 2016”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: With about 900,000 concealed handgun permit holders in Texas, there is a good chance that someone next you in a Lone Star State grocery store or restaurant is carrying a concealed handgun. Starting Friday, Texas...
CPRC in the Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune: (Gun-free Zones are) Magnets for murderers
CPRC's John Lott and Michael R. Gordinier, a senior lecture at the Washington University Business School, had a piece in Sunday's Columbia Daily Tribune (Missouri) in response to Would you post a sign announcing that your home is a gun-free zone? Would you feel safer?...
CPRC in the Los Angeles Times: “Think background checks prevent gun violence? Think again.”
From the Los Angeles Times on December 15, 2015. To the editor: Adam Winkler claims that we can reduce violent crime by requiring background checks on private gun transfers. This just isn't the case. ("Why banning assault rifles won't reduce gun violence," Opinion,...
CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: “Obama Strategy Focuses On Guns, Not Terrorism”
Here is John Lott's piece in Investor's Business Daily evaluating Obama's first two domestic proposals to protect Americans from terrorism. On Sunday night, President Obama offered Americans his strategy for protecting them from terrorism. No, he didn’t announce new...