John Lott had this latest piece in the Daily Caller (originally titled: "Does George Stephanopoulos Even Know What Gun Laws We Have Now?"): Do gun control advocates even read what gun laws are on the books? The hot new claim is that there’s nothing to stop identified...
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CPRC at the Daily Caller: “Hillary Clinton Locks Up The Gun-Grabber Vote”
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: On Thursday night, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence honored Hillary Clinton with the first ever Cuomo Visionary Award, named after the late New York Governor Mario Cuomo. The Brady Center gave her...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “As Paris Attacks Show, Europe In Denial About Gun Rights”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily is available here. French citizens were sitting ducks last Friday. For at least 10 uninterrupted minutes, terrorists mowed down attendants at Paris' Bataclan Concert Hall. In five other coordinated attacks,...
CPRC in Michigan Live (mLIVE): Keeping guns out gets us nowhere in staying safer
This op-ed by Dr. John Lott appeared in mLIVE (Michigan Live) on Tuesday, November 17, 2015. The piece started this way: Suppose a criminal comes upon your home and sees a sign announcing, "Gun Free Zone." How would he respond? Unless he thinks that the homeowner is...
CPRC in the Lansing State Journal (Michigan): “Gun Free Zone puts criminal minds at ease”
This op-ed by John Lott appeared in the Lansing State Journal on Saturday, November 14, 2015. The piece started this way: Suppose a criminal comes upon your home and sees a sign announcing, “Gun Free Zone.” How would he respond? Unless he thinks that the homeowner is...
CPRC in the Sunday Washington Post: “Maryland’s long-overdue goodbye to ballistic fingerprinting”
John Lott's op-ed at the Washington Post starts this way: Ballistic fingerprinting was all the rage 15 years ago. Maryland led the way, setting up a computer database on new guns and the markings they made on bullets. New York soon followed. The days of criminal gun...
CPRC in the Orange County Register: “Gun ownership, NRA retain popular support”
John Lott's newest piece in the Orange County Register starts this way: Despite several years of the billionaire former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and others spending hundreds of millions attacking the National Rifle Association, a new Gallup poll...
What gun control advocates bring up when they have nothing else to say, More attacks against the CPRC by gun control advocates
Gun control advocates want to argue that the only reason that people would support gun ownership is because they are getting paid off by gun makers. Shira Goodman, the Executive Director of CeaseFirePA, made this argument in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (on November...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “Mass Incarceration: Tell Hillary Clinton Punishment Matters”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: It's easy to forget that in 1991 the U.S. murder rate was well over twice what it is today. In a speech last week at Atlanta's Clark University, Hillary Clinton showed she doesn't understand her...
CPRC at the Daily Caller: “The New York Times Keeps Getting Its Gun Facts Shockingly Wrong”
John Lott has a new op-ed at the Daily Caller: Last week, a New York Times editorial shockingly claimed that American concealed handgun permit holders have been responsible for 763 non-self-defense deaths since 2007. The Times editorial cites these numbers as proof of...
CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: “‘Demographic Death’ Of NRA Just Another Big Media Myth”
John Lott's latest piece at Investor's Business Daily responds to a recent op-ed by Adam Winkler in the Washington Post. Another version of this appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review and is provided below. Lott's piece is as follows: Gun ownership is greatest...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: “Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Gun Laws In Australia And The UK”
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Democrats keeping telling people that they don’t want to confiscate their guns, but at the same time they are praising the gun control laws in countries that have confiscated people’s guns. But Hillary...