John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: Hours before the latest shooting at a movie theater in Louisiana, President Obama lamented what he regards as his greatest failure as president – his inability to pass gun control measures. In an interview with the...
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CPRC at Laura Ingraham’s new site LifeZette: “Obama’s Not Done with Guns”
John Lott's piece at Laura Ingraham's new site LifeZette starts this way: President Obama wants to take away people’s guns. Last week, he lamented to the BBC that his biggest frustration as president was not getting major gun control passed during his presidency. How...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “For more Americans, owning a gun = safety”
This piece by John Lott has been carried in some newspapers across the US: Newsday (Long Island and NYC, NY), Charlotte Observer (NC), Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN); Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI), Omaha World Herald (NE), Fresno Bee (CA), Providence Journal (RI),...
CPRC at Fox News: “Older people need guns, too”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Have you ever thought of letting someone else manage your finances? If President Obama has his way, Social Security recipients who have trouble managing their finances will be banned from buying a gun. If Social...
CPRC at Fox News: “Chattanooga shootings: Why should we make it easy for killers to attack our military?”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: Thursday saw yet another tragic attack in a gun-free zone. Four Marines were murdered. Others were injured. Watching the coverage on television Thursday, it was hard to ignore the gun-free zone sign on the front...
CPRC at the Daily Caller: “Why Background Checks Couldn’t Stop Dylan Roof”
John Lott's latest piece at the Daily Caller discusses the FBI's announcement that mistakes were made in the background check for his gun purchase. His piece starts this way: The FBI says that the federal background check system for guns should have stopped Dylann...
CPRC at Fox News: “Lynne Russell, ex-CNN anchor, and her husband are alive thanks to a gun”
John Lott has a new piece at Fox News on Lynne Russell and her husband defending themselves with a gun. Lynne Russell and her husband, Chuck de Caro, believe they would be dead if she hadn’t been carrying a gun. Late Wednesday night, Russell was forced at gunpoint...
CPRC debating the Brady Campaign on the best way to prevent mass public shootings
John Lott's piece at the PanAmPost starts this way: With just two exceptions, since at least 1950, all the mass public shootings in the United States have occurred in so-called gun-free zones, places where citizens can’t have guns for protection. Gun-free zones are...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “Obama Uses Tragic Murders, False Claims To Bash Gun Rights”
John Lott has a new piece at Investor's Business Daily: President Obama just can't help making false claims about guns. On Friday, during his eulogy in Charleston, S.C., for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Obama spent four minutes pushing his agenda for gun control. But from...
CPRC in the New York Daily News: “The myth of American gun violence”
John Lott's piece at the New York Daily News starts this way: In the wake of the murders in Charleston, President Obama has made more exaggerations and false claims about gun violence in America. He made two public addresses this past week — one to the nation on...
CPRC at Fox News: “Gun-free zones an easy target for killers”
John Lott has a new op-ed at Fox News on the The horrible tragedy last night that left nine people dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., probably could have been avoided. Like so many other attacks, the massacre took place in a...
CPRC at Fox News: “Connecticut’s strict gun licensing law linked to steep drop in homicides? Not really”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: A new study in the American Journal of Public Health claims that the state of Connecticut’s 1995 gun licensing law has reduced firearm homicide rates by 40 percent. But this just released study gives academics a...