John Lott debated Adam Winkler on Larry Mantle's show about Winkler's claim that demographic changes imply that the decline in support for gun ownership is "inevitable" (Click here Tuesday, October 20, 2015 from 2:15 to 2:45 PM EDT).
Month: October 2015
CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: “‘Demographic Death’ Of NRA Just Another Big Media Myth”
John Lott's latest piece at Investor's Business Daily responds to a recent op-ed by Adam Winkler in the Washington Post. Another version of this appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review and is provided below. Lott's piece is as follows: Gun ownership is greatest...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: “Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Gun Laws In Australia And The UK”
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Democrats keeping telling people that they don’t want to confiscate their guns, but at the same time they are praising the gun control laws in countries that have confiscated people’s guns. But Hillary...
Powerful ad illustrating that it is poor blacks, particularly women, who need guns the most for protection
John Lott's research shows that there are two groups of people who benefit the most from owning guns: 1) poor blacks who live in high crime urban areas (people who are most likely to be victims of violent crime) and 2) people who are relatively weaker physically...
Gallup: By a 56 to 41 Percent Majority, Americans Believe that More People Carrying Concealed Handguns make US Safer
For almost all categories of Americans, there is significant support for the notion that allowing people to carry permitted concealed handguns makes Americans safer. Only Democrats and those with a post-graduate education do not believe this, but that doesn't mean...
CPRC in the news around the world: The UK Guardian, Detroit Free Press, Orange County Register, and others
The Orange County Register (Orange County, California) and the Press Enterprise (Riverside County, California), October 20, 2015 But if someone is intent on breaking laws against murder, it is safe to assume that laws creating “gun-free zones” will not deter them. In...
CPRC at the Voice of America on School Shootings
Voice of America, October 13, 2015 Critics, such as John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, take issue with Everytown’s numbers. “A number of fact checks have found significant mistakes in Everytown’s report,” Lott said in an email. “Among their...
CPRC at National Review: “Right-to-Carry Laws Have Reduced the Carnage from Mass Shootings”
John Lott has a new piece at National Review that starts this way: Some have a hard time accepting that criminals can be deterred from committing crimes. They don’t believe that potential mass shooters have second thoughts when faced with the prospect of armed...
CPRC in the New York Times: “As Campus Fears Rise, So Do Efforts to Enact School Gun Laws”
From the New York Times, October 19, 2015: . . . “California is the only state that I know of that has passed a modern ban on people being able to carry a gun on college campuses,” said John Lott, the head of the Crime Prevention Research Center, who testified last...
Seven cases in the past 9 days where concealed handgun permit holders have stopped crime and/or attacks
Brick wielding assailant killed by pastor Man shoots and kills dog during attack Reno: Downtown shooting appears to be self-defense Would be robber shot and killed by victim 1 Shot dead at Waterbury Cafe Victim pulls gun on would be robbers in Nashville Man shot...
CPRC on Rush To Reason Show: John Lott explains why Gun-free Zones don’t work
Dr. Lott talks with "Rush to Reason" about Gun-free Zones and why they simply don't work. Friday, Oct 9th 2015. (6pm-6:21pm EST)
Mass public shooting in Saudi Arabia leaves five dead, 9 injured at a Shia meeting hall
A mass public shooting in Saudi Arabia left 5 dead and 9 injured. From the Guardian newspaper: A gunman shot and killed five people in an Islamic State-claimed attack on a Shia meeting hall in Saudi Arabia before being shot dead by police, said Saudi-owned Al Arabiya...