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...
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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...
CPRC at National Review: “Right-to-Carry Laws Have Reduced the Carnage from Mass Shootings”
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...
CPRC in the Detroit News on the state legislature moving to eliminate gun-free zones
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...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Would-be killers target gun-free zones”
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...
CPRC at Fox News: “Why Hillary Clinton’s gun control proposal is all wrong”
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...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: On Ahmed’s Clock and Zero Tolerance School Policies
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...
CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: Some gun laws dealing with mental illness do more harm than good
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...
CPRC in the Orange County Register: “Gun-free zones are magnets for murderers”
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...
CPRC in USA Today: Renewed calls for gun control laws did not explain August’s record high background checks
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...