Dr. John Lott's newest piece in the Los Angeles Times describes research in his new book, The War on Guns. Many believe that the United States is unique in terms of mass public shootings. Even after the attacks last November that left 130 dead in Paris, President...
Month: July 2016
New Book: The War on Guns
What are people saying about the book? “The Second Amendment has no better defender than John Lott. What makes him so invaluable is his ability to go beyond philosophical arguments and to engage opponents of gun ownership on the facts. Through rigorous research and...
CPRC at Fox News: “Do Democrats want to disarm minorities?”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox New on the Democratic National Convention: On Tuesday night, the mother of Trayvon Martin praised Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia for having “the courage to lead the fight for common-sense gun...
CPRC in the News: Newsweek, Florida Politics, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, The Blaze, Arizona Republic, and others
Newsweek, July 13, 2016 Obama has rightly been criticized on this front by the ever-alert John Lott for ignoring the underlying rate of violations, especially in connection with arrest rates for homicide, which are twice as high for blacks even though they are six...
Five defensive gun uses with permitted concealed handguns over just a few days
From Fox News 32 in Chicago, July 25, 2016: CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) - A man was shot by a civilian employee of the Chicago Police Department during an attempted robbery Monday morning in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side. Shortly before 6 a.m.,...
CPRC research covered in the Washington Times, Breitbart, and Townhall: “Concealed carry permits at all-time high Women, minorities fasting-growing groups seeking license”
The Washington Times article started this way: Nearly 14.5 million Americans are now licensed to carry a concealed handgun — a jump of 1.73 million in just a year, according to new research that says women and black Americans are among the most eager to sign up. More...
New Study: Over 14.5 million concealed handgun permits, last year saw the largest increase ever in the number of permits
UPDATE: Our newest annual study is available here. Original: The CPRC has new issue of our annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits in the US. A copy of the report is available here. Some updated numbers are shown at the bottom of this post. Past...
CPRC at the National Review: Gun Control Is Not the Answer to Shootings that Kill Police Officers
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at National Review starts this way: Democrats keep using shootings of police officers to push for more gun control. Having just arrived in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention, the Reverend Jesse Jackson complained on...
CPRC on 50,000 watt WWL’s Think Tank with Don Dubuc the views of Police on Private Gun Ownership
Dr. John Lott talked to host Don Dubuc about a recent poll by the National Association of Chiefs of Police and another 2013 survey by PoliceOne show strong support for gun ownership (Friday, July 22, 2016 from 12:10 to 12:30 PM).
CPRC in The Weekly Standard: “When the subject is guns, politics trumps history,” reviewing Pamela Haag’s book “The Gunning of America”
Shots Fired When the subject is guns, politics trumps history. AUG 01, 2016 | By JOHN R. LOTT JR. Pamela Haag calls gun makers “merchants of death." And America's love affair with guns, she says, didn't really start until the late 1800s, when the "merchants of death"...
New Survey of Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs in the United States Shows Strong Support for Concealed Carry and Gun Ownership
86.4% of the US's Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs "support nationwide recognition of state issued concealed weapon permits." 76% of those same heads of departments believe that "qualified, law-abiding armed citizens help law enforcement reduce violent criminal...
Some recent concealed carry permit holders who have stopped recent violent crime
Augusta, Maine, June 26, 2016 (WCSH, NBC Channel 6 in Portland) Augusta Police say two bystanders legally armed with handguns stepped in during a shooting incident at a Walmart in Augusta. Police say four suspects were taken into custody by police Sunday after...