Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about the push by Michael Bloomberg and other gun control efforts. (Tuesday, October 25, 2016)
Month: October 2016
CPRC gets credit at Fox News for correcting a big error in CDC data: “Federal data used for control campaign miss the mark – big time”
Dr. John Lott's analysis caught a big error in CDC data on accidental gun deaths, that made the number of deaths look 21% larger than it actually was. From Fox News: Federal data showing annual accidental gun deaths in Tennessee soared to 105 from just 19 propelled a...
CPRC in the Washington Post: “There is no particular risk in allowing concealed carry on campus”
Dr. John Lott had a letter in the Washington Post responding to a piece in the previous Sunday's paper by Daniel Webster and Ronald Daniels. The letter is as follows: In their Oct. 23 Sunday Opinion essay, “Guns on campus only invite tragedies,” Daniel Webster and...
CPRC on the Phil Valentine Show: Many gun control regulations and fees are discriminatory and dangerous
Dr. John Lott spoke with host Phil Valentine about the many regulations, fees & taxes that keep guns out of the hands of the most vulnerable of law-abiding people. Poor blacks & hispanics living in high crime urban areas are overwhelmingly impacted by being...
CPRC in the News: NBC News, Connecticut Post, WRCB TV, Guns.com, and others
NBC News, October , 2016; WRCB TV (Chattanooga, TN), October 26, 2016; Inland News Today (Riverside, CA), October 26, 2016 If anyone has a bone to pick with the Johns Hopkins report, it is John Lott. He is an economist and author of "The War on Guns: Arming Yourself...
Five Defensive Gun Uses with permitted concealed handguns: 71 year old man stops being beaten and prevents carjacking
The reporters in a couple of stories said that "but is clear is that the situation could have had a different ending." Sioux Falls, South Dakota, October 24, 2016 . . . It all started with an elderly couple sitting in their car at the Red Rock Inn. "The...
CPRC on the Frank Beckman Show on WJR radio to talk about a proposed “assault weapon” ban in Michigan
Dr. John Lott talked to Frank Beckman on his show on the 50,000 Watt WJR in Detroit about a new bill introduced in the Michigan legislature that would ban virtually all semi-automatic guns. The bill defines an assault weapon as a semiautomatic pistol or semiautomatic...
CPRC in the New York Daily News pointing out how much of a mess the background check system is
Dr. John Lott's newest piece in the politics section of the New York Daily News starts this way: Just in time for the election, the New York attorney general has released a new statewide study showing that many crime guns originated from other states. Attorney General...
CPRC in the New York Times: Commenting on “Report Highlights How Guns Flow Into New York From States With Weaker Laws”
The CPRC provided a little bit of balance in an article on the release of a new gun tracing report by the New York Attorney General. . . . But John R. Lott Jr., the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center in Pennsylvania, disagreed. “That’s like finding out...
Evaluating Bloomberg’s School of Public Health’s “Firearms on College Campuses”
This paper by the Bloomberg School of Public Health (copy available here, henceforth referred to as the Bloomberg Report) doesn’t even try to address the existing arguments that have been made on campus carry. Below is a very rough, very quick response to their...
Debate at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln this coming Thursday
The American Conservative discussing the “The War on Guns” in his essay “Does Gun Control Work?”
Robert Verbruggen, an editor at The American Conservative, writes: . . . Today I’ll look at the issue, with a special focus on a new analysis the economist John R. Lott presents in his book The War on Guns. . . . Enter Lott. In his book, he does spend some time going...