The op-ed piece in the Inquirer starts this way: The new year has brought yet more gun-control regulations. President Obama announced new executive orders on background checks. Connecticut citizens stood in long lines to register their guns, and, next door in New York...
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Evaluating the Evidence in the Federal district court’s New York gun law decision
The CPRC presents an analysis of the federal district court's decision at National Review Online. The beginning of the analysis starts this way: New York’s new gun-control law, the so-called SAFE Act, largely survived its first federal-court challenge on this past...
Newest Fox News piece: “1 year after Newtown, support for stricter gun control has disappeared”
A New op-ed piece by John Lott starts this way: President Obama has pushed hard for gun control this year and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent millions of dollars on ads, but the administration's promise to coordinate "a November lobbying effort and plan...
Opinion piece at Fox News: “NFL hypocrisy — Bloomberg anti-gun ads ok but ad about ‘protection’ is banned?”
The piece by the Crime Prevention Research Center starts this way: New York City Mayor and gun control advocate Michael Bloomberg sure knows how to get his way. This week the NFL, after featuring anti-gun ads during the last two Super Bowls, it decided that an ad...
Newest Fox New piece: New gun rules for Neighborhood Watch volunteers in Sanford, Fla. about race, politics not saving lives
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: When lives are on the line, what saves lives -- not politics – should guide policy. Gun control advocates used to warn about blood in the streets if we didn’t tighten gun laws, but as concealed handgun permits in...
Chicago Tribune opinion piece for Tuesday’s Senate hearing: “In defense of stand your ground laws”
John Lott's piece at the Chicago Tribune coincides with the Senate hearing on Stand Your Ground laws tomorrow. The article starts this way: As Sen. Dick Durbin's (D-Ill.) Judiciary subcommittee hears testimony on "stand your ground" laws Tuesday, charges of racial...
Newest Fox News piece: The truth about the new executive orders targeting guns
My newest piece starts this way: It sure sounds scary. "Military weapons" being reimported back into the United States. Or people getting guns without background checks. But the reception being given President Obama's two new executive orders on...
Newest piece at National Review: “Obama’s Racial Imbalance: He professes outrage when there’s little evidence of bias against blacks, but ignores attacks on whites.”
John Lott's newest piece starts this way: Racism should make people pretty angry. But for that very reason charges of racism should only be leveled carefully. George Zimmerman wasn’t motivated by race in confronting Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, a Hispanic, was himself...
Newest op-ed piece: Gun toting teachers’ names must remain private
John Lott's newest Fox News piece starts this way: Are people safer if criminals know who is carrying concealed handguns? Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel seems to think so. With school starting soon, he claims that if the Clarksville, Arkansas School...
Newest piece at IBD: “Media Play Up Faulty Study Suggeting Link Between Guns, Death Rates”
John Lott's newest piece at Investors' Business Daily starts this way: Do fewer guns mean fewer firearm deaths? If you believe the March 6th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association of Internal Medicine, the answer is "yes." A study by Eric Fleegler...
At the Wall Street Journal: The Facts About Assault Weapons and Crime
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed at the Wall Street Journal on the push for an assault weapons ban. Warning about "weapons designed for the theater of war," President Obama on Wednesday called for immediate action on a new Federal Assault Weapons Ban. He said that "more of...