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John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the former president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in 2013.
On October 11, 2017, ten days after a mass shooting in Las Vegas killed 58 people, a Politico / Morning Consult poll was released. It found that 64% of Americans support stricter gun laws, while 29% opposed them. Support was higher among Democrats (83%) than among independents (58%) and Republicans (49%).
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, multiple gun laws were proposed in the United States at the federal and state levels. The shooting renewed debate about gun control. The debates focused on requiring background checks on all firearm sales (called universal background checks), and on passing new and expanded assault weapon and ...
Fox local. Corin Hoggard. May 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM. ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - One new gun control measure passed the Minnesota Senate on Thursday, and another is crumbling even after passing in the ...
92.0% oppose a federal law banning the sale of firearms between private citizens. 82.3% of members are in favor of a program that would place armed security professionals in every school. 72.5% agreed that President Obama's ultimate goal is the confiscation of many firearms that are currently legal.
Democrats last year passed and Polis signed into law four less-expansive gun control bills. Those included raising the age for buying any gun from 18 to 21; establishing a three-day waiting period ...
Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. [1] [2] Most countries have relatively restrictive firearms laws, with only a few being categorized as permissive. [a] [3] Jurisdictions that regulate private access to ...
Gun violence protests, on gun control laws. (March for Our Lives) 2023. A 2023 Fox News poll found registered voters overwhelmingly supported a wide variety of gun restrictions: 87% said they support requiring criminal background checks for all gun buyers; 81% support raising the age requirement to buy guns to 21;