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...
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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...