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John Lott

John Lott is a former American football offensive tackle who became most famous as a strength and conditioning coach for several National Football League teams and for being the coach at the bench reps session at the NFL Scouting Combine.

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The explanation is simple: while you might take some guns away from criminals, if you primarily have law-abiding people obeying the ban, you mainly disarm law-abiding people and make it easier for criminals to commit crime.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News 2 years ago

While America has the most strongly gun control advocating president in our history, pushing regulations driving gun makers and gun sellers out of business, support for more gun control has fallen by 15 percentage points in just five years, yet, it seems unlikely that Democrats will rethink their support for more regulations. The partisan divide on this issue has never been so large — 91% of Democrats and only 24% of Republicans support stricter laws.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News 3 years ago

The reason for the increase is the same as the increase in gun sales over the last two years, increased crime and concerns that police aren’t able to do their job, and the large numbers of inmates released from jails and prisons.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News 3 years ago

I have dedicated years of my life to try to prevent school shootings.

– John Lott

Found on CNN 3 years ago

They might be mad. They might feel like fools, honestly, it's not about them. It's about the 3,044 chairs that were missing a student because of gun violence, and those two guys are part of the problem and they are far away from being part of the solution.

– John Lott

Found on CNN 3 years ago

They said the speech. Those are their words. They believe that, this is what these guys believe and what we did was call it out and put it out there so everyone knows.

– John Lott

Found on CNN 3 years ago

They should make the entire video public so that people can see how they deceptively edited my talk, taking not even a minute of a 15 minute talk, i have dedicated years of my life to try to prevent school shootings.

– John Lott

Found on CNN 3 years ago

Gun control advocates and Democrats will fight you tooth and nail, they want to go and say' We've stopped 3.5 million dangerous people.' I look at it as we've stopped 3.5 million law abiding citizens who wanted to get a gun.

– John Lott

Found on CNN 3 years ago

A poll by( the) Pew( Research Center) helps to explain why there has been such a large increase in concealed handgun permits among blacks and women. The poll shows a 25 percentage point increase in the proportion of blacks with a favorable view of gun ownership. This is the largest increase of any group.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News 6 years ago

The states that we have seen a slowing of permits have primarily been these Constitutional Carry states where a permit is no longer required, indeed some of those states have even seen a drop in the number of permits even though the number of people carrying in those places has undoubtedly gone up.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News 6 years ago

What is so frustrating is that they don’t want to consider doing something that would work, like dealing with the fact that 98 percent of the mass public shootings keep on occurring in places where we ban general citizens from defending themselves, these killers keep saying that they pick places where people don’t have guns to protect themselves.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News 6 years ago

We are all looking for magic bullets to stop crime, but it creates real problems, it prevents 20-year-old women who were stalked from having guns for protection.

– John Lott

Found on FOX News 6 years ago

You might have imagined that if people were shooting black suspects for some type of racial animus, you might imagine there would be a change before and after Ferguson.

– John Lott