Money Quote by John R. Lott Jr

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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…

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Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

— John R. Lott Jr

“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…

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“Of course, the New York Times will never run a news article on studies that find that guns save lives. Even when they write…

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“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

“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

“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

“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