Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal. . News outlets claim that Americans mistakenly believe violent crime is rising. A Gallup survey last year found that 92% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats thought crime was increasing. A February...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Wall Street Journal that questions the apocalyptic predictions by Biden and others over guns after the US Supreme Court decision on New York's concealed handgun law. . ‘Lives are on the line,” President Biden said after the Supreme...
Here is the story of the elaborate hoax by a gun control organization that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. If I had done this to gun-control organization, where I refused to release the original video, I suspect that the media would have reacted very differently....
John Fund has a piece in the Wall Street Journal that extensively discusses our recent work on anti-fraud voting regulations in other countries. The proxy voting rules is also from our research and the last paragraph here is very similar to what we wrote at Real Clear...
James Freeman has a discussion of our latest work at the Wall Street Journal. Audio of WSJ discussion This is getting awkward. Woke and weak corporate executives at American Airlines and Delta have been trying to signal virtue by opposing, respectively,...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Wall Street Journal. When President Trump introduced Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, he warned: “The coming years will decide the survival of our Second Amendment.” He’s right. Joe Biden’s campaign website contains a...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. ‘Absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.” That quote isn’t from President Trump, who criticized mail-in voting this week after Wisconsin Democrats tried and failed to change an...
Dr. John Lott and Brad Smith have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on the harm created by campaign finance laws. Since campaign finance laws carry criminal penalties, they are something that interests the Crime Prevention Research Center. The laws create a very...
Here is the mention that the Wall Street Journal recently made of our work on which Capitols allow people to carry guns. . . . At least 21 states allow Capitol visitors, legislators or employees to carry guns under some circumstances, says the Crime Prevention...
From James Freeman in the Wall Street Journal referenced our paper at the Social Science Research Network. What Would We Do Without Gun Control Experts? “Regarding proposals that can reduce mass public shootings, while public health researchers give a score of at...
From the Wall Street Journal (click here for the article): A streaming video of the Sunday church service in Texas at which a parishioner gunned down a shooter is rallying those who support making it easier for private citizens to bear arms. Gun-rights...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Wall Street Journal about Mexico's extremely high murder rate. Another month, another record number of murders in Mexico. For the first nine months of 2019, Mexico had 25,890 murders—almost six times as many murders per 100,000...