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...
On March 10th, Rachael Joseph, the Director of Outreach for Protect Minnesota and who works with Bloomberg's Everytown, had a piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune attacking Dr. John Lott. The piece was supposedly about Lott's op-ed on Stand Your...
I have responded previously to some of these claims by Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes. Their latest attack is over at ThinkProgress, which bills itself as providing a progressive perspective. No doubt, the attack was prompted by the media coverage that I have been...
DeFilippis and Hughes have another piece attacking Dr. Lott's new book The War on Guns (UPDATE: DeFilippis and Hughes discretely note by their byline that they have updated this piece, but we haven't taken the time to go through it again to...
Dr. John Lott had a letter to the editor in the Los Angeles Times responding to an error filled op-ed by gun control advocates Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes, who appear to be part of the Bloomberg funded gun control network. To the editor: Evan DeFilippis’ and...
In mid-November John Lott got into an exchange with Gary Kleck about "More Guns, Less Crime." This took place after other Kleck statements to the media about me. In the new discussion, Gary continues to go out of his way to engage in personal attacks on Lott: "he...
In August, Kleck told Mother Jones that he doesn’t know of any “credible criminologist” who believes that “with more guns there are less crimes.” More recently Kleck was interviewed by Ari Armstrong about these points and Kleck's claims that there hasn't been any...
Gun control advocates want to argue that the only reason that people would support gun ownership is because they are getting paid off by gun makers. Shira Goodman, the Executive Director of CeaseFirePA, made this argument in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (on November...
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) has spent some time putting together contact information for the CPRC's academic board of advisors and the deans of their schools (see here and here). The notion is that they think that they can intimidate all these...
Last August, Taylor Woolrich was the first speaker at our conference for Students for Concealed Carry. Her tragic story about a woman who was being stalked and her desire to be able to defend herself received a lot of media coverage. In a piece at Buzzfeed last night...
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Mother Jones, a leftist magazine funded by people such as George Soros, and I have been in a running feud for years. They have continually made false claims about guns, often claims that have been cited by...
The altered image above is from a new Mother Jones' article, which was written to try discrediting John Lott and the Crime Prevention Research Center. Mother Jones is willing to do anything to push for gun control. The magazine is very left-leaning and is funded by...