John Lott's latest piece at Investors' Business Daily: From the left and right, people are bombarded with diametrically opposing claims on guns. But most of this bombardment isn’t coming from the National Rifle Association. Michael Bloomberg is spending far more...
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CPRC correcting the Brady Campaign’s false claims in the New Hampshire Union Leader: “Clinton and the gun control lobby get it wrong”
With days before the New Hampshire primary, John Lott corrects what Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, recently wrote in the New Hampshire Union Leader attacking Bernie Sanders (Friday, February 4, 2016). Hillary Clinton has made gun...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “Gun Vs. Traffic Accident Deaths: Getting The Data Straight”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily is available here: Which are you more likely to be killed by: a car or a gun? We all know how many people die on the roads each year, so it would be mindblowing if there were actually more gun deaths than motor...
CPRC in the New York Post: “What Bernie Sanders misses about the rise in campaign cash” and why that is related to the gun control debate
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...
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...