John Lott talked to Steve Malzberg about President Obama's comments regarding the Oregon community college shooting.
Year: 2015
CPRC in the New York Daily News on the Oregon Shooting
From the New York Daily News: John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, pointed to the fact that none of the security guards at the college were armed, hinting the attack could have been stopped in its tracks if they had weapons. He made a...
CPRC on Al Jazeera to discuss the shooting in Oregon at Umpqua Community College
CPRC on The Dana TV Show talking about the Oregon community college shooting
John Lott talked to Dana Loesch on The Blaze TV after the tragic attack in Oregon.
CPRC on Spanish Language News for South and Central America to Explain More Guns Mean Less Crime
Here is an English translation from NTN24: After the shootout in Oregon and the statements of Barack Obama on the laws governing the use of weapons, the information NTN24 [Nuestra Tele Noticias 24 Horas] thesis analyzed by an expert who ensures that the less weapons,...
Police support for getting rid of gun-free zones
PoliceOne surveyed 450,000 members – 380,000 active-duty and 70,000 retired law enforcement officers. A March 2013 survey by the group found 86 percent of members believing that casualties from mass public school shootings (such as the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary...
Problems with a new study from Journal of Criminology claiming that permitted concealed handguns have no effect on violent crime
Warning: These researchers are refusing to release the data used in their already published study. Public health researchers at Texas A&M University (Charles D. Phillips, Obioma Nwaiwu, Szu-hsuan Lin, Rachel Edwards, Sara Imanpour, and Robert Ohsfeldt) have a new...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: On Ahmed’s Clock and Zero Tolerance School Policies
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: President Obama still hasn’t learned his lesson. He has spoken out yet again before the facts were in. In this case, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested and suspended for bringing an electronic...
CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: Some gun laws dealing with mental illness do more harm than good
John Lott's latest piece at Investor's Business Daily: Everyone wants to keep guns away from the mentally ill, but the vast majority of them do not pose a danger to others or themselves. The warning signs seem obvious in hindsight, but it's very difficult to know who...
CPRC on the Michigan Talk Network about the Pope’s view that gun ownership is a sin and how permitted concealed handguns make crime riskier for criminals
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about the Pope's view that owning or making guns is inconsistent with being a Christian (noting some of the international evidence) and how concealed handguns make it riskier for criminals to commit crime (Tuesday, September 22,...
Two crimes within 24 hours foiled in the Detroit area by Concealed Handgun Permit Holders
Armed bank robbery stopped (Monday night, September 21, 2015): . . . The 43-year-old assailant entered the bank with a gun and had procured “a large amount” of cash from the bank when, on the way out, he appears to have threatened a 63-year-old customer with his gun,...
CPRC on Michigan Talk Radio to discuss the Miss America contestant who opposed more gun control regulations
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about the Miss America contestant who opposed more gun control regulations (September 15, 2015, 6:45 to 6:52 AM).