John Lott has a new piece at National Review that starts this way: Some have a hard time accepting that criminals can be deterred from committing crimes. They don’t believe that potential mass shooters have second thoughts when faced with the prospect of armed...
John Lott has this new piece in the Detroit News: Would you post a sign announcing that your home is a gun-free zone? Would you feel safer? Criminals don’t obey these signs. In fact, to criminals, gun-free zones look like easy targets. So why do we put up these signs...
John Lott's newest piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way: There has been another horrible crime committed and once again it is followed by calls for so-called universal background checks on private transfers of guns. Hillary Clinton vows, if she becomes...
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Americans desperately want something done about mass public shootings. Hillary Clinton took a page from President Obama’s playbook Monday, vowing that as president she will bypass Congress and use executive...
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: President Obama still hasn’t learned his lesson. He has spoken out yet again before the facts were in. In this case, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested and suspended for bringing an electronic...
John Lott's latest piece at Investor's Business Daily: Everyone wants to keep guns away from the mentally ill, but the vast majority of them do not pose a danger to others or themselves. The warning signs seem obvious in hindsight, but it's very difficult to know who...
John Lott's newest piece in the Orange County Register starts this way: Would you post a sign announcing that your home is a gun-free zone? Would you feel safer? Criminals don’t obey these signs. In fact, to criminals, gun-free zones look like easy targets. So why do...
John Lott's letter to the editor at USA Today can be found here. Original Post: USA Today repeats what is a popular claim, that gun sales are driven by pushes for gun control. Even when a spike in sales occurs after a shooting, there are two possibilities: 1) that...
John Lott's op-ed in the Memphis Commercial Appeal starts this way: Americans are increasingly convinced that owning a gun makes them safer. A new Rasmussen poll found that an overwhelming majority of Americans (68 percent) “feel safer in a neighborhood where...
John Lott's latest piece in the Daily Caller starts this way: An 11-year-old boy shoots an almost 17-year-old who had broken into his home, saving his 4-year-old sister and scaring away another burglar. The burglars repeatedly tried to break into the home, finally...
John Lott's newest piece in Investor's Business Daily: Gun sales are at record highs, but Wal-Mart, the nation's biggest seller of guns and ammunition, announced last week that it has stopped selling so-called "assault rifles" or "other modern sporting rifles." "It's...
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts off this way: Within a few hours of the tragic shooting Wednesday that killed journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward, politicians and gun control advocates were calling for more gun control. Hillary...