UPDATE: Newest numbers 14.5 million permit holders in 2016. The report below is for 2014. The later reports for 2015 and 2016 can be seen here. ORIGINAL POST: Concealed-Carry-Permit-Holders-Across-the-United-StatesThe Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) today...
Year: 2014
Discussion of Chicago’s crime problems ignore what Rahm Emanuel has done to the police department
There is a lot of discussion right now about the number of shootings in Chicago over the 4th of July weekend. As the Chicago Tribune notes: 16 people killed in weekend gun violence over the long holiday weekend in Chicago. Sixty-six other people were wounded, a toll...
CPRC at Freedomfest in Las Vegas
Jennifer Pinnell is shown here manning the CPRC booth at the Freedomfest. For those attending, John Lott will be speaking on the topic “It’s A Crime: How Gun Control Cost Lives and Disarms the Poor" at 4:50 to 5:40 PDT PM on Thursday, July 10th.
Discussion on the link between abortion and crime at Barron’s
John Lott has a review of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's new book "Think Like a Freak" in Barron's. The review covers many points, but one of them is the claimed relationship between the liberalization of abortion and crime rates. Here is the relevant discussion:...
Media inaccurately describes Target’s position on customers bringing guns into stores
Here are some of the headlines on Target's statement on guns in their stores. Christian Science Monitor: "Target goes gun-free, becoming biggest US retailer asking customers to disarm" Financial Post: "Target Corp to customers: Your guns are not welcome in our stores,...
Talk on Obama and Bloomberg’s false claims about guns
Here are other interesting talks at the session by Nicole Goeser and Andrew Branca
CPRC at Fox News: “What the Supreme Court still doesn’t understand about guns”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: In what’s being hailed by many as a victory for gun-control advocates, the recent Supreme Court decision on “straw” purchases of guns has completely muddled the whole issue of background checks and “straw”...
CPRC at Fox News: What liberal media won’t tell you: School shooting deaths down, not up, across America
The Fox News piece starts this way: Is there an epidemic of school shootings? Parents are understandably fearful, but their fear is unjustified. Schools are relatively safe places, and they have gotten much safer. While even one death is too many, the number of...
Another Planned School Shooting: Everything we have said about the planning, maximizing kills to maximize publicity, and the targeting of the school resource officer is true again here
How many more times do we have to hear the exact same story over and over again before we realize that these killers crave media attention? From the Times News (Kingsport, Tennessee) on June 12th: . . . According to law enforcement officials, the teens intended to...
Former executive director of Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown For Gun Safety admits that their proposals won’t stop these attacks
Mark Glaze, the executive director of Michael Bloomberg's Everytown For Gun Safety until earlier this month, told the Wall Street Journal that the policies that they propose enacting wouldn't stop these attacks: “Because people perceive a mismatch in the policy...
CPRC at Fox News: “Obama making up facts about guns”
The newest Fox News starts this way: President Obama just can't seem to help himself. Over and over again, he makes exaggerated or false claims about guns and crime. Last year Obama kept asserting the bogus numbers such as “40 percent of all gun purchases take place...
CPRC on the Jim Bohannon Show to discuss the Supreme Court decision over “straw purchasers”
On Monday, the Supreme Court released its decision in the case of Abramski v. United States. The case involved a police officer, Bruce Abramski, who bought a gun, a Glock 19 handgun, for his uncle. The officer, who is a federally licensed dealer and could get a...