The Economist magazine had the headline in mid January: "A gun is now more likely to kill you than a car is." It is a claim that has been repeated over and over again (see Forbes, The Atlantic, Slate (question 9), Vox (also at MSN News), RT, college newspapers across...
Month: January 2015
CPRC on Frank Beckmann’s Show on WJR, the coming anti-gun push from Bloomberg
CPRC's John Lott was on the 50,000 Watt WJR from 10:50 to 11:00 AM on Friday, January 30th. Steve Gruber was substituting for Frank. Lott and Steve discussed the huge amounts of money that Bloomberg, various foundations, and President Obama are putting into trying to...
One reason that the surveys on gun ownership may underestimate the number of gun owners
We have pointed out the conflicting polls on the percent of population owning guns, but there is a good reason to believe that these surveys have missed any increase in gun ownership because of an increasing distrust that Americans have in telling pollsters whether...
Iowa’s concealed handgun permits soar 450 percent since 2010, CPRC in the news at Fox News
From an article at Fox News: In 2010, Iowa's numbers were just shy of 40,000, but according to data from the Iowa Department of Public Safety, last year the number crested 220,000. In 2011 alone, the number of permits issued in the state more than doubled. Nationally,...
CPRC in the New York Daily News: Rates that police kill black and white teenagers
From the New York Daily News: Black male teenagers are killed by police 2.3 times as often as whites, John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, found. . . . While the 2.3 times number is much more accurate than the claims put forward by Slate...
CPRC at Fox News: “Terrorists can strike any time, anywhere: Self defense saves lives”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Terrorists can strike anywhere and at any time, giving them a huge strategic advantage.Unfortunately, too many politicians around the world are refusing to admit this. After the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris...
Do “more children die of bathtub drownings than of accidental shootings”? Yes.
Leonard Pitts, Jr. starts off his national newspaper column this way: Tucker Carlson said on Fox that more children die of bathtub drownings than of accidental shootings. They don't. Yet, Mr. Pitts is the one who is wrong. According to the U.S. Consumer Product...
New Hope City (MN) Council Member John Elder responds to attack on council by drawing gun
When shots rang out in the New Hope City Council (Minnesota), Council Member John Elder, a former police officer, drew his permitted concealed handgun to protect those who were at the meeting. An armed attacker shot at a group of uniformed police officers, wounding...
CPRC on the Michigan Talk Network discussing why people are buying guns and people’s changing views on guns and gun control
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on Thursday, January 22, 2014 from 8:35 to 8:41 AM.
CPRC on the Lars Larson Show to discuss the polls on gun control and media bias
John Lott was interviewed by Lars Larson on Thursday, January 22nd, 2014 from 6:05 to 6:15 PM EST. Lott was also interviewed by Mike Gallagher earlier that day about terrorist from 10:35 to 10:40 AM EST.
CPRC on the Dana Loesch Radio Show to discuss new background check proposals and defensive gun uses
John Lott appeared on Dana's national radio show twice yesterday (Thursday, January 22nd, 2014 at 2:23 to 2:30 PM and 3:05 to 3:16 PM). The first segment discusses recent statements by media figures as well as a claim in Politico that defensive gun uses are a myth....
The impact of the CPRC: Our research being used in debates over gun control
North Dakota's House Judiciary Committee held a hearing this week on bill that "would allow elected officials with a valid concealed carry permit to carry a firearm in public buildings." From the Bismarck Tribune (North Dakota) discussing the debate over the bill: . ....