John Lott's newest piece in the Tribune-Review starts this way: Anytime, anyplace, terrorists can strike. With just his signature, President Obama could eliminate the gun-free zone policies that leave our military personnel defenseless. Late last week, Republicans in...
Month: July 2015
CPRC on Coast to Coast AM to discuss the Mass Public Shooting that was stopped by a permit holder in Southern Ohio
John Lott talked to George Noory about the case from 1:08 to 1:11 AM on Tuesday, July 28, 2015.
CPRC at Fox News: “Gun-free zones are killing us”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: Hours before the latest shooting at a movie theater in Louisiana, President Obama lamented what he regards as his greatest failure as president – his inability to pass gun control measures. In an interview with the...
CPRC at Laura Ingraham’s new site LifeZette: “Obama’s Not Done with Guns”
John Lott's piece at Laura Ingraham's new site LifeZette starts this way: President Obama wants to take away people’s guns. Last week, he lamented to the BBC that his biggest frustration as president was not getting major gun control passed during his presidency. How...
Permit holder saves family of 4 that man was shooting at
Thomas McCary (Hamilton County sheriff's office) Fox 19 in Cincinnati, Ohio originally reported this story from Winton Hills, Ohio. Fox News has this: [Thomas] McCary [62-years-old] was arguing with a woman around 8 p.m. Sunday night and, when the woman’s brother,...
Washington Post’s misleading article on “mass shootings” — falsely claiming “204 mass shootings” when virtually none of these cases qualify for the normal definition of “mass,” UPDATED: Response from Washington Post
Click on screenshots to enlarge. Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post has another article on guns. Unfortunately, Ingraham explicitly ignores the FBI's definition on mass shootings. The cases he ends up with involve very few murders and are heavily biased to...
CPRC on the Laura Ingraham Show: The Danger of Gun-free Zones
John Lott talked to Laura Ingraham about the dangers of gun-free zones for the military and other places (Friday, July 24, 2015 from 10:07 to 10:16 AM).
CPRC has two of the top four for most downloaded studies dealing with “PSN: Security & Safety” on the Social Science Research Network
Click on Screen shot to enlarge it. Just as the CPRC's research on crime has been having an impact and widely downloaded. Now our research is having an impact in another area ("Security and Safety"). As people download our research and they move up in rank, the more...
International Crime Comparisons: US relatively safe in terms of violent crime
One of the big problems with comparing crime rates across countries is that there are big differences in what constitutes a crime and even whether people report crimes to police. If people don't think that the police in a country will be able to solve the crime, it...
Lafayette, Louisiana Movie Theater Shooting was yet another gun-free zone, other movie theaters in area didn’t have that policy
The movie theater shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana occurred in yet another place that banned permitted concealed handguns. The shooting occurred at the Grand Theater. It's "conduct policy" openly bans the carrying of guns, just like where the Aurora, Colorado movie...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “For more Americans, owning a gun = safety”
This piece by John Lott has been carried in some newspapers across the US: Newsday (Long Island and NYC, NY), Charlotte Observer (NC), Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN); Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI), Omaha World Herald (NE), Fresno Bee (CA), Providence Journal (RI),...
CPRC in other radio interviews on dangers of gun-free zones
John Lott talked to the Michigan Talk Network on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 from 6:45 to 6:52 AM. John Lott spoke to the Christian radio network "The World" on Wednesday, July 22.