“In my third edition of More Guns, Less Crime, I provided the first published, peer-reviewed, nationwide study on Stand Your Ground laws.… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“3.Background checks as de facto registration. It is not just other countries that use gun registries as a tool for mass confiscation.… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“it might be time to correct some of the massive flaws in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The biggest problem… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment 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 Amendment 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… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“Of the four worst K-12 school shootings in history, three have occurred in Europe. Germany was host to two of these—one in… — John R. Lott Jr History Copy Share Image
In theory, if a gun is left at the scene of a crime, licensing and registration will allow a gun to be… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
If those states which did not have right-to-carry concealed gun provisions had adopted them in 1992, approximately 1,570 murders; 4,177 rapes; and… — John R. Lott Jr Adopted Copy Share Image
“Columbia’s Dart Center treated Bloomberg and his various anti-gun groups as objective sources of information. “Nearly 12,000 murdered with guns each year,”… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“After the San Bernardino attack, Alison Anderman, with the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, noted: “California is leading the way [with… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“Former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard wrote in the New York Times in 2013, “[T]here is a wide consensus that our… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“In February 2000, I testified before the Hawaii State Senate joint hearing between the Judiciary and Transportation committees on changes that were… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“To do just that, Bill Landes (University of Chicago Law School) and I collected data on all multiple victim public shootings in… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“against my research were true. The claim is especially ludicrous, since the NRA doesn’t seem to fund any statistical research at all.… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“Finally, we must bear in mind that guns are not the only tools of mass killing. In America, by far the worst… — John R. Lott Jr Boston marathon Copy Share Image
“If a national pollster asked you if you owned a firearm, would you determine to tell him or her the truth or… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“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 Amendment Copy Share Image
“There is another real cost to linking gun violence with mental illness. Dr. Renee Binder, President of the American Psychiatric Association and… — John R. Lott Jr Gun control Copy Share Image
“Gary Kleck of Florida State University even said that he doesn’t know of any “credible criminologist” who believes that “with more guns… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“In a study that I did on the years 1995–2001, I found that children under ten were involved in an average of… — John R. Lott Jr Children Copy Share Image
“Obama has even sought to prohibit gun purchases by Social Security recipients who have trouble managing their finances. The push is for… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“Thus there was no “loophole,” no special rule for gun shows. The most recent surveys of state and federal prisoners, conducted all… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“Since 1970, all of the twenty-five worst mass public shootings occurred outside the U.S. Muslims also committed twenty-two of the worst twenty-five… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“Without question, most researchers believe that guns are used more often in self-defense than in the commission of a crime. They also… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“In 2014, the ad that the NFL turned down featured a former Marine talking about his responsibility for his family’s safety. Unlike… — John R. Lott Jr American flag 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 Amendment Copy Share Image
“By 2015, a 25 percent greater proportion of blacks were answering that they thought owning a gun improves safety. There was an… — John R. Lott Jr Concealed Handgun Copy Share Image
“Americans have seen this before. In June 2008, then Senator Barack Obama assured everyone, “I have said consistently that I believe that… — John R. Lott Jr Gun ban Copy Share Image
“But the fact is that it’s virtually impossible to stop criminals from obtaining the magazines they want. Magazines, large or small, are… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“Usually, when gun control researchers do a study, only a small set of countries are used in any comparison, typically limited to… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“But it is probably not too surprising that gun control advocates who live in New York City know very little about guns.… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
![“After the San Bernardino attack, Alison Anderman, with the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, noted: “California is leading the way [with stricter gun control laws], but California is surrounded by a country that has much weaker laws, and we know that a lot of the guns used in crime in California…” quote by John R. Lott Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82d/john-r-lott-jr-9603_gun-control_after-the-san-bernardino-attack-alison-a_1270506.jpg)
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