John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: There has been a lot of second-guessing about Andreas Lubitz, the Germanwings co-pilot who deliberately crashed his plane into the French Alps, killing himself and 149 others. If only Lufthansa had regular mental...
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CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: Ferguson Justice Department Report Misleads On Racism
John Lott has expanded his previous discussion in the New York Post with some additional data that he didn't have room for in that piece. Most seem to accept the Obama administration's claim that the Ferguson police department is a hotbed of racism. As President Obama...
CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune: “Obama’s backdoor ban”
Eric Heyl with the Pittsburgh Tribune conducted this interview with us: John R. Lott Jr. is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, . . . [an] organization that examines the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns and crime and...
CPRC at Fox News: Why Michael Bloomberg’s latest push for gun control is all wrong
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Michael Bloomberg is spending tens of millions of dollars trying to convince state legislatures to support restrictive gun control laws. From television and newspaper ads, to blanketing communities with flyers, to...
CPRC at Fox News: “Is gun ownership really down in America?”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News: Is gun ownership falling? The answer is yes, at least if you believe a new General Social Survey (GSS) by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). Supposedly, since the late 1970s, the percentage of homes with a gun has fallen...
CPRC at Fox News: “Rare Victory: Obama administration temporarily drops ammo ban proposal”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: If President Obama can’t have his way with banning guns, it looks like his next option is to ban the bullets used by those guns. Too often, Obama has shown little regard for the law. He does what he wants. If...
CPRC in the New York Post: “Ferguson fake out: Justice Department’s bogus report”
John Lott's piece in the New York Post starts this way (for those interested in reading the original DOJ report on Ferguson it is available here): Addressing the nation from Selma, Ala., on Saturday, President Obama said that while racism may be “no longer endemic,”...
CPRC at Fox News: “Justice Department reached only possible conclusion in Michael Brown case”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News started this way: Three-and-a-half months after a St. Louis Grand Jury decided not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for Michael Brown’s death, President Obama’s Department of Justice has finally followed suit –...
CPRC in the Las Vegas Review Journal: “Gun-free zones put innocent in danger”
John Lott's op-ed in the Las Vegas Review Journal 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 we...
CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review: Comments on FBI Director James Comey’s recent speech on police and race
John Lott's newest piece in the starts this way: FBI Director James Comey's recent speech on police and race was about as politically incorrect a speech as you will get these days from a high-ranking government official. Comey acknowledges “the existence of...
CPRC in the Chicago Tribune: “Take a gun to the mall”
John Lott's newest piece at the Chicago Tribune starts this way: Over the weekend Somali terrorists threatened to attack the Mall of America in Minnesota. They called for a massacre similar to the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed and...
CPRC in Fox News: Police are extremely Law-abiding, but concealed handgun permit holders are even more so
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: . . . Gun control advocates just can’t accept the fact that concealed handgun permit holders are incredibly law-abiding. The New York Times’ recent attack on permit holders is typical. It is filled with...