NR PLUS Politics & Policy Limiting Gun Rights While Defunding Police Is a Recipe for Disaster By John R. Lott Jr. August 4, 2020 If gun-control advocates get their way, law-enforcement officers and ordinary citizens alike will be powerless to stop violent crime.
Law & the Courts California’s Ammo Background Checks Misfire By John R. Lott Jr. April 29, 2020 ‘Criminals, tyrants, and terrorists don’t do background checks,’ said the judge who blocked the law.
NR PLUS U.S. Are Gun Stores ‘Essential’ Businesses? By John R. Lott Jr. March 25, 2020 Yes, especially when jails and prisons are releasing inmates early.
Elections Biden, Beto, and Gun Control By John R. Lott Jr. March 4, 2020 They want to take your firearms away and make no bones about it.
Politics & Policy ‘Red Flag’ Laws Are the Wrong Solution to Mass Shootings By Thomas Massie & John R. Lott Jr. August 12, 2019 They haven’t reduced crimes, and the potential for misuse is great.
Politics & Policy Bernie Sanders Is Wrong: Felons Shouldn’t Vote from Prison By John R. Lott Jr. April 11, 2019 Giving criminals more of a say in elections is morally wrong — and a political disaster for Republicans to boot.
Law & the Courts Why Judicial Confirmation Battles Keep Getting Longer and More Vicious By John R. Lott Jr. September 25, 2018 Wasn’t it just weeks ago at John McCain’s funeral that Democrats were calling for more civility in politics?
Law & the Courts Media Should Refrain from Naming Any Mass Public Shooter By John R. Lott Jr. June 1, 2018 Giving evil killers prime-time coverage is neither necessary nor helpful.
Politics & Policy Trump’s NRA Speech: A Response to the Fact-Checkers By John R. Lott Jr. May 11, 2018 The president has been more accurate than the media have been.
Politics & Policy The Gun-Ban Fetish By John R. Lott Jr. October 8, 2017 Bret Stephens’s call for repeal of the Second Amendment is not well thought through