CPRC's John Lott discussed the Michael Woodard defensive gun use case in Canada with Brian Lilley. The Idaho case that Brian mentions is available here.
Month: January 2015
Counties around Portland, Oregon experience explosive 41% or more growth in concealed handgun permits from 2011 to 2014
Portland's GoLocalPDX has a lead news story on the growth of concealed carry permits in the Portland area. Not enough information is presented in the article to determine the permit growth rate for all three counties, but Multnomah and Washington counties had a 41...
CPRC in the New York Times: Are people carrying permitted concealed handguns into airports really significant?
The Sunday New York Times piece by Kate Murphy has this: . . . The Crime Prevention Research Center used public records to count 12 million Americans with concealed-carry permits. It’s probably a low estimate as numbers are not available for all states that issue...
CPRC on the Larry Elder Show discussing Terrorism in Europe, claims about defensive gun uses, and the Sentencing Guidelines
CPRC's president, John Lott, was on Larry Elder's show on Friday to discuss a range of issues from terrorism in Europe to recent claims in Politico about defensive gun uses. The segment was on from 7:15 to 7:30 PM on Friday, January 16th, 2015.
The Melbourne Square Mall in Florida is yet another gun-free zone
There might not be too many malls in Florida that ban permitted concealed handguns, but the Melbourne Square Mall where there was an attack that left one victim dead and one wounded was another gun-free zone. The Melbourne Square Mall is "a Simon Mall." Yet, none of...
Papa John’s lets pizza delivery woman who shot armed robber keep her job, Police: “She had no other choice”
As the police say, the pizza delivery woman "had no other choice" and she would have been in real danger if she hadn't had her concealed handgun permit. From Fox News: The employee was making a delivery in Decatur, Ga., Sunday night when a man approached her vehicle,...
Man Puts Gun to Pizza Delivery Woman’s Head, She Uses Permitted Concealed Handgun to Defend Herself
There were two men who tried to rob a Papa John's Pizza delivery driver on Sunday evening in DeKalb County Georgia. DeKalb County Police Department Capt. Stephen Fore told WSB-TV said: “She arrived at the location and a male began approaching the vehicle she thought...
Leading European Rabbi calls for Jews to be able to carry handguns
Putting 10,000 French soldiers in front of Jewish facilities will offer little protection as terrorists have control over where and when they attack. Terrorists have important strategic advantages in picking the time and place for attacks. Putting uniformed guards...
The long list of illegal weapons used by the terrorists in the Paris attack
In reaction to the terrorist attack in Paris, we have gotten these types of comments: “There’s too many [expletive] guns out there. Especially in America. I think the population is like, 320 million? There’s over 300 million guns. Privately owned, in America. I think...
Adjusting NICS checks for background checks for Concealed Handgun Permits
You can compare these adjusted numbers to the official NICS numbers. This adjustment is significant -- the NICS numbers are 42.6% higher in 2013 than these adjusted numbers. But the numbers show similar changes in gun ownership over time. The adjusted numbers...
CPRC on WVON in Chicago for a lively discussion on black’s trust of police officers
Maya Akai had John Lott on WVON, the big black talk radio station in Chicago, to discuss his findings that if you look at the rate that blacks report crimes to police it appears that blacks trust police more than most people believe. It was a very lively program,...
CPRC at Fox News: “The bias against guns: What the media isn’t telling you”
CPRC's John Lott has a new piece at Fox News that starts this way: Just two days before New Year’s, a 2-year-old accidentally shot and killed his mother at a Wal-Mart in rural Idaho. The victim was Veronica Rutledge, a 29-year-old concealed handgun permit holder. The...