Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics that discusses some of the other false claims in the gun control group's high school commencement hoax. I recently drove 950 miles to give the keynote commencement address at an online high school based in Las...
While there were many other errors in Robyn Thomas' piece on Red Flag laws, the Washington Post allowed Dr. John Lott a chance to respond to her criticism of his work. A data file with a list of all the state laws and there content is available here. Robyn Thomas’s...
Responding to attacks on an op-ed that I recently wrote in the Missoulian. They called into question both my expertise as an economist to deal with price controls and claims regarding the National Research Council work regarding firearms and violence. An...
The big response from Michael Bloomberg's gun control advocates to my op-ed in the Wall Street Journal was that I was a "gun lobby shill." It is a false claim that Shannon Watts and other gun control advocates have floated before and I have responded before. Neither...
Media Matters is upset again that a major news outlet has published John Lott's work. In this case, the anti-conservative group is miffed that he had a piece in the Wall Street Journal. WSJ gives discredited researcher John Lott a platform to falsely blame gun...
The Rand Corporation reaches its conclusions on gun control by having its survey completely ignore studies that indicate that gun control is harmful. Their survey also inaccurately misstates the studies that they do reference. Time after time, their justifications for...
Mr. Johnson's Tweet is available here. Media Matters has a long history of distorting what people have written or said (also here). After pointing out that Hogg's attacks on others "has gone beyond any acceptable bounds of political discussion," the...
Letters in the February 14th New York Times: Response: Congresswoman Kelly wants one to believe that across Republican and Democratic administrations, across Republican and Democratic-controlled congresses, the incredibly low rate of prosecutions and convictions for...
Over the last few days, there have been a lot of attacks on Dr. Lott research after his testimony to the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. One of the common lines of attack has been that he testified in an area where he is not an expert. The...
John Donohue responded to our comments on our website and in an op-ed at Fox News. Below we go through and respond to the points that he raised. Amusingly, the author of the original piece in Michael Bloomberg's "The Trace" emailed Donohue as soon as my comments...
An new study by John Donohue, Abhay Aneja, and Kyle Weber has received a lot of attention for supposedly finding some evidence that right-to-carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. It has been covered in Newsweek, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Vice, Snopes, and...
The left-wing Pacific Standard magazine has a very one-sided piece attacking Dr. John Lott. Lott spent 45 minutes talking to Peter Moskowitz, the author of the Pacific Standard article, before doing a debate on gun control at Baylor University. Below are some quotes...