This list here is only a tiny fraction of the news coverage that we have received over the last week. We have seen the CPRC covered in hundreds of media outlets as a result of a story in the Associated Press. Other outlets such as NBC News and Newsweek have also covered our research.
Tampa Tribune, December 13, 2015
What is not debatable is there are more than a few real-world episodes where gun-toting civilians have performed exactly as Florida’s sheriffs recommend. The Crime Prevention Research Center lists five cases in the first seven months of 2015 in which nonpolice thwarted gunmen apparently bent on inflicting mass havoc. . . .
UK Daily Mail, December 11, 2015
“Marco Rubio’s claim that no recent mass shootings would have been prevented by gun laws,” December 10, 2015
John R. Lott Jr., at the pro-gun Crime Prevention Research Center, notes that such bans would target .223-caliber weapons but would not affect more powerful semiautomatic rifles using .30-06 caliber, which are used for hunting deer. (This video demonstrates the difference.) . . .
“After San Bernardino, everyone wants to be a ‘good guy with a gun’,” December 10, 2015
Researcher and gun advocate John Lott estimates that there are about 12.8 million concealed carry permit holders in the U.S. as of 2015, up from 4.6 million in 2007. . . .
Washington Times, December 9, 2015
With the call to arms, concealed carry classes are overflowing. “Packing heat” is not just for country cowboys any longer; suburbanites, both men and women, are signing up for classes. They’re apprehensive over arming themselves but consider it a civic and family duty. Concealed carry permits have nearly tripled nationwide since 2007 to more than 12.8 million. And no surprise, the murder rate has dropped by 25 percent, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . .
CNBC, December 8, 2015
About 13 percent of Israeli civilians are licensed to carry weapons, said [Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat]. By comparison, about 5 percent of adults in the U.S. have concealed carry permits, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . .
Kansas City Star, December 19, 2015
According to the pro-gun (and widely criticized) Crime Prevention Research Center, almost 13 million concealed-carry permits have been issued across the country. . . .
Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, Idaho), December 9, 2015
Cincinnati.com, December 11, 2015
One needs only to do some research using the FBI crime statistics database or the Crime Prevention Research Center to learn that violent crime in the USA has gone down in the last five years while the rate of gun ownership has increased. . . .
Sioux City Channel 9 News, December 19, 2015
The Federalist, December 15, 2015
. . . CDC leaders were not shy about their intentions of banning guns from the public. Sure enough, they acted on their desires. In October 1993, The New England Journal of Medicine released a study funded by the CDC to the tune of $1.7 million, entitled “Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home.” The leader author was Dr. Arthur Kellermann, an epidemiologist, physician, and outspoken advocate of gun control.
In the study, Kellerman concluded that people who kept guns in their homes were 2.7 times more likely to be homicide victims as people who don’t. Major media outlets, such as the New York Times, still cite these statistics.
These problems prompted objections and questions from leading scientists in the field of criminology, such as Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott, Florida State’s Gary Kleck, and University of Massachusetts sociology professors James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi. Their research had come to vastly different conclusions, and they found the methodology unsound.
As Lott says of Kellermann’s study in his book, “More Guns, Less Crime”:
To demonstrate this, suppose that we use the same statistical method—with a matching control group—to do a study on the efficacy of hospital care. Assume that we collect data just as these authors did, compiling a list of all the people who died in a particular county over the period of a year. Then we ask their relatives whether they had been admitted to the hospital during the previous year. We also put together a control sample consisting of neighbors who are part of the same sex, race, and age group. Then we ask these men and women whether they have been in a hospital during the past year. My bet is that those who spent time in hospitals are much more likely to have died — quite probably a stronger relationship than that between homicides and gun ownership in Kellerman’s study. If so, would we take that as evidence that hospitals kill people?
He summarized, “it’s like comparing 100 people who went to a hospital in a given year with 100 similar people who did not, finding that more of the hospital patients died, and then announcing that hospitals increase the risk of death.” . . .
Bradenton Herald (Florida), December 13, 2015
Above the Law, December 9, 2015
On the contrary, this year alone, France has witnessed three mass shootings.John R. Lott Jr., President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, finds, “In 2015, France suffered more casualties than the U.S. has suffered during Obama’s entire presidency (508 to 394).” Beyond France, three of the four worst K-12 shootings have taken place, not in the United States, but in Europe.
Far from causing mass shootings, the absence of guns engenders them. It’s no coincidence that “Since at least 1950, all but two public mass shootings in America have taken place where general citizens are banned from carrying guns. In Europe, there have been no exceptions. Every mass public shooting has occurred in a gun-free zone,” reports Lott. Cowardly gunmen target the defenseless. . . .
New Zealand Herald, December 12, 2015
The Bulletin, December 13, 2015
The Dalles Chronicle, December 9, 2015
Bearing Arms, , December 8, 2015
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