Here is the audio of John Lott on the Lars Larson Show on Monday, December 8th, 2014 from 6:35 to 6:44 PM EST. Here is the audio of John Lott on the Dennis Miller Show on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 from 2:05 to 2:30 PM EST. John Lott also appeared on the Sandy...
Month: December 2014
CPRC at Fox News: “Media Matters, the facts and me”
John Lott's newest piece starts this way: With just one telephone call this year, Erik Wemple of the Washington Post was able to convince Media Matters to let me respond to their attacks on me in the comments section of their website — after they ignored my emails,...
CPRC at Breitbart: “Left media continues smear campaign on economist John Lott”
Kristin Tate has this article at Breitbart.com: Media Matters has long advertised to the public a commitment to fighting misinformation on the internet, but lately the group seems to be creating misinformation of its own. The nonprofit generally targets...
CPRC in the Associated Press on background checks
From Matt Stroud at the Associated Press: . . . John R. Lott, Jr., author of More Guns Less Crime, doesn't think Hunt's gun purchase indicates that gun regulations should change. He said studies consistently show that background checks don't reduce violent crime, but...
Do Blacks trust the police more than whites or Hispanics do?
A recent Gallup survey shows 50% of blacks believe that black males are more likely to go to prison than white males primarily because of discrimination. By contrast, only 19% of whites agreed. Blacks also indicate that they have less confidence in police and the...
Two cases within a couple days where concealed handgun permit holders stopped robberies
One customer was killed here, but without the permit holder in this case, multiple customers might have been killed. St. Louis (occurred on Tuesday night, December 2, 2014): . . . Police said three gunmen entered the bar about 10:55 p.m. Tuesday — one of them...
CPRC on KTSA on the Eric Garner case in New York City
John Lott was on the Trey Ware Morning Show at 8:45 AM on Thursday, December 4th to talk about the Eric Garner case and the general behavior of the police.
CPRC at Fox News: “Ferguson: Obama contines to undermine police departments around the country”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News explains the dangers that police face and starts this way: As a response to the police shooting of Michael Brown, President Obama proposes $263 million for police training and body cameras. But more police training wouldn’t have...
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM: Discussing the increase in gun sales during November
The audio of the interview that I did with George Noory is available here. Click on table to enlarge it. Gun sales on path for near record sales, Ferguson stories might be helping increase, but sales were already high for the year The FBI NICS checks are on path for...
CPRC in the New York Daily News: “Dangerous distortions about cops shooting black men: An oft-cited figure is based on incomplete data and questionable math”
John Lott's newest piece at the New York Daily News starts this way: Exaggerations have poisoned discussions about relations between blacks and the police. “Black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times as likely as whites to be killed by a police officer,”...
CPRC on Bill Martinez Live: Discussing Ferguson fall out
John Lott was on the Bill Martinez Live to discuss the fall out after the Ferguson verdict was released (show went from 9:20 to 9:45 AM, Tuesday, December 2, 2014). Martinez's show airs in over 250 markets. Part 1: Part 2: