Dr. John Lott will be testifying at 3pm today before the Michigan Senate Judiciary Committee on a bill that will eliminate gun-free zones for those CPL Holders who conceal carry....
Month: October 2015
CPRC in the News: News Coverage from around the US
Washington Post, October 8, 2015 But pro-gun-rights economist John Lott Jr. wrote in his 2003 book, "The Bias Against Guns," that states with conceal-and-carry laws did have lower firearm murder and injury rates. He's also argued that guns can be a powerful deterrent:...
CPRC on Fox News: Would New Gun Laws Make You Safer?
Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, explains what the recent shootings all have in common.
American Psychiatric Association’s president, Dr. Renee Binder, says preventing the mentally ill from owning guns won’t reduce murders
APA President Renée Binder, M.D., isn't an expert on the storage of guns in the home or the risk of children getting access to guns, but she is an expert on mental illness. From Psychiatric News Alert (The Voice of the American Psychiatric Association and the...
CPRC’s Kesten Green Debating Gun Control on the Australian Broadcasting Corp
Dr. Kesten Green, University of South Australia Business School and a Fellow at the Crime Prevention Research Center, debated two gun control advocates Samantha Lee Chair, Gun Control Australia, and Professor Andrew Goldsmith Strategic Professor of Criminology at...
CPRC on NewsMaxTV: “New Obama Orders on Guns Will Make Costs Higher”
From NewsMaxTV: Any executive order President Barack Obama imposes to require more background checks for gun buyers would merely "make it more costly for people to be able to own guns," crime expert and author John Lott Jr. told Newsmax TV on Friday. "What he's trying...
CPRC on the Michigan Talk Network about Obama’s claims on mass public shootings
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 from 6:15 to 6:22 AM.
CPRC on the Frank Beckman Radio Show on how to stop mass public shootings
John Lott talked to Frank Beckman about what can be done to stop mass public shootings on the giant 50,000 Watt WJR in Detroit (Wednesday, October 7, 2015 from 10:05 to 10:18 AM).
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “Would-be killers target gun-free zones”
John Lott's newest piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer starts this way: There has been another horrible crime committed and once again it is followed by calls for so-called universal background checks on private transfers of guns. Hillary Clinton vows, if she becomes...
CPRC debating push for new gun control on the Sean Hannity Radio Show
John Lott debated Benjamin Crump, who was the lawyer for Michael Brown And Trayvon Martin, on the Sean Hannity Radio Show. They debated the new proposed gun control regulations (Monday, October 6, 2015, 5:06 to 5:21). Sean Hannity’s show is heard by over...
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...
Candidate’s statement on gun-free zones after Oregon shooting
Some evidence that the political debate is changing. “This campus was a gun free zone and yet somehow this individual got onto campus with not one gun but several guns. So, before we start calling for more laws I think we ought to consider why we don’t enforce the...