Other news coverage of the CPRC

October 5, 2015

Even if Clinton’s proposals were implemented, writes Fox News’ John R. Lott, they wouldn’t have stopped the Umpqua attack last week, nor the mass public shootings throughout Obama’s presidency. Lott argues that government databases used for background checks are “rife with errors” and repealing immunity for gun manufacturers would usher in unfair lawsuits that raise the price of guns “for protection.” Clinton’s proposals, concludes Lott, do not “address the obvious problem of gun-free zones and will ultimately make Americans less safe.” . . .

October 5, 2015

According to a study about concealed handgun carriers by the Crime Prevention Research Center, more than 5% of the adult population in America carries. . . . .

Op-ed by David Limbaugh, October 5, 2015

The president also fails to acknowledge author John Lott’s findings as of 2010 that all the multiple-victim public shootings (where three or more were killed) in Western Europe and in the United States occurred where civilians were not allowed to carry guns. . . .

October 5, 2015

Kelly responded by saying gun-free zones exist because less guns equal greater safety. He said there “is no evidence” that mass shooters “intentionally” choose gun-free zones to commit an attack, and he claimed “less than 15 percent” of mass shootings take place in gun-free zones.

Kelly’s figures are likely drawn from an Everytown for Gun Safety study, which claims that only 14 percent of mass shootings occur in gun-free zones. But contrary to Kelly and Everytown, the number of mass shootings that take place in a gun-free zones is greater than 9 out of 10. In fact, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) has shown that 92 percent of mass public shootings have occurred in a gun-free zones.

On top of this, there is ample proof that mass shooters purposely target gun-free zones. One of the best illustrations of this is Aurora movie theater gunman James Holmes, who shot and killed 12 and wounded 70 more during an July 2012 showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.” After the attack was carried out, Fox News reported that there were seven movie theaters showing the film within a 20-minute radius of Holmes’s residence, some of which were even closer than the Cinemark theater he attacked. . . .

October 5, 2015

Gun rights analyst John Lott Jr. disputes the data on gun laws in the 2013 paper and tells the Post that, in any event, the real issue is whether gun laws caused crime rates to fall relative to other states after their adoption. . . .

Oregon-Politics, October 5, 2015

According to the data, Professor Jacobson appears to be correct in his assertion that gun-free zones attract mass-murderers. Last year, the Crime Prevention Research Center released a report that clearly showed a correlation between gun-free zones and mass shootings. The CPRC report found that between January 2009 and July 2014, 92 percent of mass shootings happened in gun-free zones. . . .

The Crime Prevention Research Center has published similar data, ranking the United States ninth among European nations for the frequency of mass public shootings per million people. The organization also published a list of the 13 worst mass public shootings, noting that nine of them occurred outside the United States. . . .

John Lott of Crime Prevention Research Center and the author of More Guns, Less Crime says that Oregon has made it a point to disarm security guards.

Allison Peregory, a student and chairman of the Young Conservatives of Texas – UT Chapter, told TheBlaze prior to the rallies that she would protest in support of campus carry because as a female who has to walk home alone at night, being able to defend herself is “reassuring”.