“The infamous 2015 Charleston, South Carolina church shooting was originally going to be a college shooting. But Dylann Roof changed plans after… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“In other words, if the media wanted to, they could easily find academics on different sides of the gun debate.” — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“Hillary and Senator Murphy may claim that they care about the poor, but poor people in the highest-crime areas are the most… — John R. Lott Jr Poor people Copy Share Image
Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets. — John R. Lott Jr Administration Copy Share Image
“Democrats keep telling people that they don’t want to confiscate their guns. At the same time, they praise laws in countries that… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“In fact, as discussed in more detail in the next chapter, after the UK’s 1997 nationwide handgun ban, their homicide rate actually… — 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
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 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
“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
“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
“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 Amendment 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
“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
“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 Amendment 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
“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
“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 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
“The Small Arms Survey makes it look as though there are only twenty-five countries with higher homicide rates than the U.S. In… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“Proponents of the federal “Trayvon Martin Act” want to prevent Stand Your Ground laws from being used by someone who was the… — John R. Lott Jr Bottom line Copy Share Image
“In a 2013 interview with academics who do research on gun control and gun-free zones, Jake Berry, a reporter with the Nashua… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“In January 2016, President Obama held a town hall event on CNN to explain his newest push for gun control. Rape victim… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“When President Obama addressed the country on January 5, 2016, about his latest push for gun control, Bloomberg-funded research provided the “facts”… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“On December 10, 1998, Daley had organized a conference with four other mayors to discuss suing the gun makers. Because of my… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“The Army psychiatrist who last saw Ivan Lopez found no “sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others.”42 James Holmes’s… — John R. Lott Jr Health care Copy Share Image
“After the phone call from Daley, the University of Chicago presented me with my two termination options. I wrote back to Dean… — John R. Lott Jr Phone call 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
“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
“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
“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
“Although 2015 was certainly an anomaly, the fact remains that in one year France suffered more mass public shooting casualties—killings and injuries—than… — John R. Lott Jr Copy Share Image
“In 2004, the U.S. National Research Council released a report reaching this same conclusion: “It is the committee’s view that the theory… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“What we do find is that fatalities and injuries from mass public shootings increased in states after they imposed background checks on… — John R. Lott Jr Amendment Copy Share Image
“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
