After each mass public shooting, President Obama and Hillary Clinton call for expanded background checks. John Lott talked to the Associated Press in an article entitled "California's tough gun laws didn't make a difference in recent attack." The article appeared in...
Year: 2015
Bret Baier’s Special Report discusses the CPRC’s research on Mass Public Shootings
More detailed information on the numbers used by Bret Baier on Fox News are available here, here, and here. Peter Docey did make one mistake in discussing our research. We were not subtracting off terrorist attacks from the totals.
Liberty University, with 14,500 students, asks students and faculty to carry permitted concealed handguns on campus
Liberty University has 14,500 residential students and 2,500 full-time and part-time faculty. This past week the university's president, Jerry Falwell Jr., urged students and faculty during Friday’s convocation to carry concealed weapons on campus in the wake of...
CPRC on Coast to Coast AM talking about the San Bernardino Attack
John Lott talked to George Noory about the recent attack in California and the push by President Obama for so-called expanded background checks (Friday, December 5, 2015 from 1:08 to 1:12 AM). George Noory's show is listened to by over 2.75 million people.
John Stossel’s column takes on the claims that John Lott’s research has been “discredited”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, New Hampshire Union Leader, St. George (UT) Spectrum, Townhall.com, Reason.com, Elko (Ca) Daily Free Press, Human Events, and many others. This week, my TV show is on gun control. I interviewed activist Leah Barrett, who wants...
CPRC on CNN with Carol Costello discussing what can be done to stop mass public shootings
John Lott talked to Carol Costello about misleading claims in the gun control debate and what can be done stop these mass public shootings (Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:52 to 9:57 AM). The youtube of the interview here doesn't include the introduction where Costello...
CPRC Sr Fellow Jack McCauley on Stossel’s Fox Business Show
CPRC's Jack McCauley debated New Yorkers Against Gun Violence's Leah Barrett on John Stossel's show on Fox Business
CPRC on Radio Programs across the country after the San Bernardino Shooting: Lars Larson, Sandy Rios, and many others
Lars Larson's National Show, Tuesday, December 1st, 2015 from 7:20 to 7:30 PM, on Obama's talk about mass public shootings being unique to the US. WMAL's Morning on the Mall with Brian Wilson and Larry O'Connor on Thursday, December 3rd, 2015 from 6:37 to 6:43 AM...
CPRC in the Washington Post on Mass Shooting Tracker’s misleading methodology and claim of 355 mass shootings this year
John Lott's past concerns about Mass Shooting Tracker's methodology were aired by Christopher Ingraham in the Washington Post" Some observers, such as independent researcher and gun-rights proponent John Lott, object to the tracker's methodology, because it counts “a...
CPRC on Canada’s The Rebel: Discussing San Bernardino Terrorism
John Lott talked to Ezra Levant on this show about the mass public shooting in San Bernardino.
CPRC on San Francisco’s Fox Affiliate KTVU to debate about Gun Laws after the San Bernardino Shooting
John Lott debated the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence's Alison Anderman about Gun Laws after the San Bernardino Shooting (Thursday, December 3, 2015 from 12:15 to 12:23 PM EDT). We only have an audio of the discussion and it is a little unusual in that the audio...
CPRC at Fox News: “The facts shoot holes in Obama’s claim that US is only host to mass killings”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: On Tuesday, President Obama stunned Americans and French alike with his false claims about gun violence in America. "I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings. This just doesn’t happen in other...