Amanda Collins Johnson, a fellow with the CPRC, survived a violent rape in a gun-free zone. While she had regularly carried a concealed handgun, she was denied the ability to defend herself because the University of Nevada did not allow permitted concealed weapon on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W8CFYKkPEU Dr. John Lott testified before the US Civil Rights Commission on federal efforts to gather data on racial and ethnic disparities. He was on Panel 4: Researcher & Policy Experts. Dr. Lott was the only person on...
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Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the Supreme Court's case that will be heard in oral arguments today. How certain should we be that someone did something wrong before they lose their right to own a gun? Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear a...
Kerry Slone, CPRC's director of education, has her first piece at the Wall Street Journal on an important Supreme Court case that will have oral arguments on Tuesday. . You wouldn’t want to live next door to Zackey Rahimi. According to court documents, he...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. With the mass murder of 18 people in Maine on Wednesday, gun control advocates are calling for more gun control laws. Right at the top of the list is a so-called Red Flag Law. Vice President Kamala Harris has already called...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. The piece was also published at Zero Hedge, Pintudeerah News, and News ND. On Monday, in a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court voted without comment to allow the Biden administration’s regulations on...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist on a Supreme Court decision on Monday. . The lower the threshold for taking away a person’s guns, the more likely it is that guns will be taken away from innocent people. . The Supreme Court has now received all the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Washington Times. By the way, there was a kibbutz where civilians were armed and they were able to hold of the terrorist attack. . Hamas attacked as Israelis were wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish festival of Sukkot on...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist. . Gun control advocates keep telling us that there is 90-plus percent support in polls for expanded background checks, but the support is much less solid than the media and gun control advocates would have you...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. It was also published at Florida, Daily, Zero Hedge, and Leon News. . After several road rage cases claimed the lives of children this summer, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham suspended the open and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W8CFYKkPEU Dr. John Lott testified before the US Civil Rights Commission on federal efforts to gather data on racial and ethnic disparities. He was on Panel 4: Researcher & Policy Experts. Dr. Lott was the only person on...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc85xTZIjtU On October 24th, Dr. John Lott gave a talk at Tufts University to their Federalist Society. The talk was on gun control laws that discriminate against minorities and the poor. The audio is available here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIMdBmpZwtI Last month, the governor of New Mexico issued a temporary public health order restricting the carrying of firearms in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. The bipartisan pushback against this order was swift, and she later...
Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, appeared on the Talk Back program for an hour to discuss many crime and gun control topics, including the latest Supreme Court case, United States v. Rahimi, and biased media coverage on mass public...
Kerry Slone, CPRC’s director of education, talked to Jeff Stein on Iowa’s giant 50,000-watt KXEL-AM radio station about her first piece at the Wall Street Journal on the latest Supreme Court case United States v. Rahimi. See also academic research that shows...
Kerry Slone, CPRC’s director of education, talked to Bill Meyer on Medford, Oregon’s KMED-AM about her first piece at the Wall Street Journal titled "How to Handle Domestic Violence and Gun Rights." (Monday, November 13, 2023, from 7:12 to 7:30 AM PT)
Amanda Collins Johnson, a fellow with the CPRC, survived a violent rape in a gun-free zone. While she had regularly carried a concealed handgun, she was denied the ability to defend herself because the University of Nevada did not allow permitted concealed weapon on...
Three pages from the Nashville Covenant School shooter's diary reveal that the attacker was a left winger who hated whites. They also show the attack was planned for two years in advance (possibly longer). The attack occurred in late March 2023, and she wrote: "There...
Gun control advocates keep trying to convince Americans that they don't need a gun for protection. Indeed, they are trying to convince them that they shouldn't have guns for protection. A new Harvard CAP/Harris Poll shows their message is having trouble getting...