Dr. John Lott was on WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall to discuss the mass public shooting at Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, IL.
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Read moreRep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) pushes gun background checks on private transfers because “We Could Have Parkland at Any Time,” but there is not 1 mass public shooting this century that would have been stopped by this law. So why do gun controllers keep pushing it as a solution?
As usual, this interviewer on CNN refuses to ask a tough question.…
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Read moreDr. John Lott has a new piece in the Sunday Las Vegas Review-Journal about the new gun control law just signed by Gov. Steve Sisolak. The piece starts this way.
Everyone wants to stop dangerous criminals or people with serious mental illness from having guns. We feel that as strongly as ever on the one-year anniversary last week of the Parkland high school attack.
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Read more“Did you ever see him with guns at work?” the anchors asked Probst [an employee at the company] about the shooter.
“No. We are not even supposed to have any guns at work.” He said.
— ABC Channel 7, WLS, Chicago
Reportedly five were murdered in the attack at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois.…
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Read morePresident of the Crime Prevention Research Center, John Lott, joins Dana to debunk the false information and cherry-picked statistics put out by Everytown for Gun Safety.
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Read moreDr. Lott testified before the Pittsburgh City Council about a range of gun control laws that they are considering and offers a compromise in the debate on how to fix the Background Check System if they truly want Universal Background Checks. A compromise that seems to be ignored. Notice the behavior of Councilman Bruce Kraus at the end of the video.…
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Read moreDr. Lott speaks with host Steve Gruber about the real problems with gun-control laws currently being debated in Congress. Dr. Lott provides examples of where so-called “sensible” gun-control laws, such as Universal Background Checks, could turn many well-intentioned Americans into felons.
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Read moreThe federal government has successfully capped or limited the costs of phone calls and other fees charged to state prisoners. But jail inmates and their families are now paying an average three times the going rate for phone services, according to the Prison Policy Initiative.
Read moreFrequently in the solution to these mass shootings is to simply spend more money on mental health.
MAJOR GARRETT: . . . Do you believe the legislation the Senate did not pass would have made any difference in this case [the Elliot Rodger’s shooting]?
SENATOR RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: The legislation that failed to pass–it got support from fifty-five senators–would have provided a mental health initiative with more resources, greater ability for the Santa Barbara police to intervene–to use the sheriff’s word–to have professionals trained in diagnosing and detecting this kind of derangement.
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Read moreDr. John Lott has been invited to testify about the City of Pittsburgh’s proposed gun control ordinance on Tuesday, February 12th before the Pittsburgh City Council. The testimony is scheduled for 1:30 PM.
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