“None of these shootings, nor others that the president has mentioned, would have been stopped if background checks on private transfers had… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“2.Stop only prohibited people from buying guns. The background check system is a mess. Virtually everyone who fails the check is someone… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“Democrats could pass universal background checks if only they addressed three seemingly straightforward problems: 1.Who pays for it? Gun buyers and sellers… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“The reason there are so few attacks that use out-of-state guns is that in both cases these individuals could have passed background… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“Here is how they came up with it: Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown organization set up a website pretending to sell guns, but no… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“For all the emphasis on assault weapons, 68 percent of mass public shootings did not involve any long guns (Figure 2). Eighty-four percent of… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“As to the “super destructive .50-caliber sniper rifle,” not only does the New York Times editorial get the law wrong, but it somehow neglects… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“There is another real cost to linking gun violence with mental illness. Dr. Renee Binder, President of the American Psychiatric Association and herself a… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“When President Obama addressed the country on January 5, 2016, about his latest push for gun control, Bloomberg-funded research provided the “facts” that Obama… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“None of these shootings, nor others that the president has mentioned, would have been stopped if background checks on private transfers had been required.4… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets. — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“3.Background checks as de facto registration. It is not just other countries that use gun registries as a tool for mass confiscation. People in… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“Of course, the New York Times will never run a news article on studies that find that guns save lives. Even when they write… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“In my third edition of More Guns, Less Crime, I provided the first published, peer-reviewed, nationwide study on Stand Your Ground laws. I found… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“The infamous 2015 Charleston, South Carolina church shooting was originally going to be a college shooting. But Dylann Roof changed plans after realizing that… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“After the phone call from Daley, the University of Chicago presented me with my two termination options. I wrote back to Dean Fischel—whom I… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“The Army psychiatrist who last saw Ivan Lopez found no “sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others.”42 James Holmes’s psychiatrist warned… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“Of the four worst K-12 school shootings in history, three have occurred in Europe. Germany was host to two of these—one in 2002 at… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“Former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard wrote in the New York Times in 2013, “[T]here is a wide consensus that our 1996 reforms… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
“Democrats are unwilling to admit that their gun control regulations are disarming poor Americans. President Obama characterizes Voter ID laws that offer free IDs… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share
