NRA Explore by Frank Miniter 12/9/2020
So, earlier this fall, John Lott accepted a position at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Specifically, he went to work as a senior adviser for research and statistics at the Office of Justice Programs—this is a DOJ division that quietly gives out $5 billion in grants annually. Sounds like a boring job for a statistician and researcher, right?
Not exactly.
This DOJ division has given millions of dollars to academics—some who have a clear bias against your right to keep and bear arms. In his new role as an adviser, it is unclear whether Lott has yet been able to bring some balance to these massive grant allocations—DOJ-funded studies that, when they come out, often feed the mainstream news with “research†arguing that good, old-fashioned American freedom is not such a good thing after all.
If Lott, who is well-known for digging deep into the details about gun ownership and crime rates, is able to influence how this money is allocated, he could affect the left’s ideological quest to ban and confiscate the citizenry’s guns. (If you don’t know Lott, go to the Crime Prevention Research Center’s website, a group Lott founded, and check out some of the research papers Lott has written and co-written, or take a look at his many books on the subject—the left hates Lott, as he not only tells the truth about guns in America, but he also backs his words up with data.)
So, when word got out that Lott is working at the DOJ, the left demanded his job.
More:
https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2020/12/9/why-these-senators-want-john-lott-fired-now
