This is John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily: President Obama wants to put gun dealers out of business. When he was a state senator in Illinois, he supported a ban on the sale of handguns and all semi-automatic guns as well as a ban on selling guns...
Month: April 2016
Updated: Murder and homicide rates before and after gun bans
Original post: Every place that has banned guns (either all guns or all handguns) has seen murder rates go up. You cannot point to one place where murder rates have fallen, whether it's Chicago or D.C. or even island nations such as England, Jamaica, or Ireland. For...
CPRC on Turkish TRT World’s The Newsmakers to Debate the Death Penalty
CPRC's John Lott debated Anthony Graves, who was exonerated of committing a murder in Texas. The debate was on TRT World's The Newsmakers. That is on the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. Survey on Death Penalty Research from John Lott's Freedomnomics Angus...
Video of Dr. John Lott v Paul Helmke debate in NYC: Will more Gun Control reduce the murder rate? Audience vote shows CPRC wins debate
The proposition for debate was: “In order to reduce its murder-rate, the U.S. needs more stringent gun-control laws.” John Lott argued against the proposition. Dr. Lott’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” now in its third edition, was first published in 1998. He holds a...
CPRC on The Steve Gruber Show: Discussion on debating Gun-Control Proponents and concerns with a changing Supreme Court
Dr. John Lott speaks with host Steve Gruber about a gun-control debate in New York City with former President of The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Paul Helmke. Also discussed are what concerns we should have with a Supreme Court that may change it's...
Another gun ban, another bad outcome: Venezuela homicide rate rose after 2012 ban on private ownership of guns
Private gun ownership was banned in Venezuela in June 2012, but their homicide rate went from 73 per 100,000 people in 2012 to 82 per 100,000 people in 2015. A private organization, the Venezuelan Violence Observatory (OVV), puts the rate in 2015 at over 90 per...
Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley says 8 minute response time in mass public shootings is “adequate” and “pretty quick,” opposes letting soldiers carry weapons on military bases
Here is a video clip of the Army chief of staff testifying on April 7th that it isn’t necessary to arm soldiers on military bases, such as Fort Hood attack, because: "We have adequate law enforcement on those bases to respond ... You take the Fort Hood incident number...
Four Defensive Gun Use Cases in a Week by Concealed Carry Permit Holders
Self-Defense leads to fatal shooting at Mandeville gas station, police say. MANDEVILLE, La. — A shooting at a gas station left one person dead in a possible of self-defense case. According to Mandeville Police, the shooting happened at the Shell station, at 3959...
Debate in New York City: Dr. John Lott vs Paul Helmke on Gun Control
Location: NYC Junto-General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York (20 West 44th Street, New York, New York 10036) Date & Time: Thursday, April 7th at 8pm. Details: John Lott and Paul Helmke will engage in an Oxford-style debate on gun control...
Cases of Handgun Carry Permit Holders defending themselves & others
Major media networks don't share these defensive gun use cases with the public. We thought we would share some recent cases with you, so you can see that guns are used to save innocent lives. Would-be Robber fatally shot during Uptown hold-up (North Side, Chicago)...
CPRC research is covered by Breitbart.com: “Guns Stolen from Licensed Dealers at Rate of .039%”
The CPRC's new study on gun thefts from Federally licensed gun dealers gets covered at Breitbart.com: A new Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) report shows that guns were stolen from licensed dealers at a rate of .039 percent in 2015. This revelation comes even...
Last handgun ban in an American jurisdiction is struck down
The Northern Mariana Islands was the last jurisdiction in the United States where handguns were banned. In the decide federal case Radich v. Guerrero (D.N.M.I. Mar. 28, 2016), a federal district court rule that their bans handguns, bans importing handguns into the...