People often link to the Harvard Injury Control Research Center page on Homicide as evidence to prove that gun ownership is a negative. If guns are on a net negative on safety, how come every single place that has banned guns (all guns or all handguns) has seen an...
Siegel, Xuan, Ross, Galea, Kalesan, Fleegler, and Goss have a paper in the American Journal of Public Health that claims to be the first paper to find a statistically significant increase in homicides from the passage of right-to-carry laws. The bottom line is that...
A new very short report from a few people at the Harvard Business School claims that waiting periods reduce homicides, though they find that there is no consistent effect on suicides. The report is titled "Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths," and it was...
A new study from The Annals of Internal Medicine titled "In-State and Interstate Associations Between Gun Shows and Firearm Deaths and Injuries" Results: Compared with the 2 weeks before, postshow firearm injury rates remained stable in regions near California gun...
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Larry Elder Show to discuss Public Health research on Police Deaths and Gun Ownership Rates. Lott's book, The War on Guns, shows that when this data accounts for national changes in crime rates the higher gun ownership rates in a state...
The new Harvard-Northeastern survey is very disappointing. There are two points to this survey. That the percentage of the population owning guns is falling and that a very small percent of the population is buying a huge number of guns. The new book The War on...
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News is on the extremely low quality of research by public health researchers starts this way: Academic advocates of gun control apparently need to manipulate the data in order to argue for background checks on private gun transfers. ...
John Lott's op-ed at the Washington Post starts this way: Ballistic fingerprinting was all the rage 15 years ago. Maryland led the way, setting up a computer database on new guns and the markings they made on bullets. New York soon followed. The days of criminal gun...
John Lott was interviewed by America's First Freedom about the problems with some recent so-called "public health" research. The first question and answer is available here: America's 1st Freedom: What were the biggest things that the authors of the study on...
John Lott talked to Jim Bohannon about recent research claiming to find relationship gun ownership and the safety of police, the huge increase in the number of concealed handgun permits, and President Obama's push on stopping some people on Social Security from owning...
The end of last week a study in the American Journal of Public Health claimed that there were more police feloniously killed in states that had more guns. The study got extensive news coverage on the TV networks such as NBC News, dozens of newspapers such as the...
Live Science describes a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this way: Monuteaux and his colleagues wanted to test whether increased gun ownership had any effect on gun homicides, overall homicides and violent gun crimes. They chose firearm...