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...
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...
Carina Storrs with CNN interviewed John Lott, and tried to get across the point that you can't cherry pick one law in one state when many places are changing their laws. Unfortunately, she left out the main point that even for Connecticut there was no real evidence...
The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University put out this press release on a paper by Rudolph, Stuart, Vernick, and Webster: A 1995 Connecticut law requiring a permit or license - contingent on passing a background check - in order to purchase a...
David Hemenway wrote an op-ed that was originally published in the Los Angeles Times and then picked up in many other newspapers. The Los Angeles Times was unwilling to publish a letter that the CPRC sent in, but the Wisconsin State Journal did publish the letter in...