John Lott's newest piece at National Review Online starts this way: On Sunday, Hillary Clinton slammed Republicans for not being serious about protecting Americans from terrorism. “How many more Americans need to die before we take action?” Clinton asked in response...
Year: 2015
CPRC in the Washington Post on ” Fact Checker Obama’s inconsistent claim on the ‘frequency’ of mass shootings in the U.S. compared to other countries”
John Lott's work was quoted extensively in this article in the Washington Post by Michelle Lee. On Obama's claims about mass public shootings being unique to the US, the Post only gave him two Pinocchios. John R. Lott Jr., gun rights analyst who has tracked mass...
More Mass Public Shootings in Gun Free Zones: San Bernardino, California and Colorado Springs, Colorado
Regarding the shooting in the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino "The biggest problem is that it was a gun-free zone," said Get Loaded owner Terry McGuire, 49, a bald, burly guy who looks as though he would be right at home among the many cops and deputies to...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “Obama Is Wrong: Mass Shootings Do Happen Elsewhere, And More Often”
This piece was written before the mass public shooting in San Bernardino, California, so the total casualties in the US would be 424. John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: Barack Obama stunned Americans and French alike on Tuesday...
Gun Background Checks Continue at Record Pace, Black Friday’s Gun Sales Set Record
Click on figure to enlarge For the last six months, NICS background checks have been setting a records. On Black Friday, there were 185,345 NICS checks, over 8,000 more than the previous record of 177,170 set on December 21, 2012. The previous Black Friday record...
President Obama explains to Parisians that Mass Public Shootings occur only in the United States
“... obviously, my heart goes out to the families of those impacted. I mean, Nancy, I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings. This just doesn’t happen in other countries. You know, we are rightly determined to prevent terrorist attacks wherever they...
CPRC on the Mark Levin Radio Show to discuss the push towards “Universal” Background Checks
John Lott talked to Mark Levin about calls by Hillary Clinton and President Obama for so-called "Universal" background checks (Monday, November 30, 2015 from 8:35 to 8:45 PM). Mark Levin's show is heard by over 7 million people.
CPRC at Fox News discussing “Police union wants NFL to allow concealed carry at stadiums”
John Lott was interviewed by Fox News about whether the NFL should ban off-duty police from carrying their service weapons at games. “Off-duty police had been carrying their guns with them at NFL games from the time the NFL started until about a year-and-a-half ago,...
New York Times again using the bogus Violence Policy Center data
The New York Times continues its reliance on the Violence Policy Center's discussion about concealed handgun permit holders. since 2007, at least 763 people have been killed in 579 shootings that did not involve self-defense. The Times didn't take our letter to the...
CPRC on Washington DC’s big WMAL to discuss DC Police Chief’s advice on civilians should actively take out mass public shooters
John Lott talked to Brian Wilson and Larry O'Connor about the DC Police Chief's advice on civilians should actively take out mass public shooters. Here is also an interesting interview that Brian Wilson and Larry O'Connor had with the head of the DC Police Officer...
CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “America could use more concealed carry gun permit holders”
John Lott's newest piece in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review starts this way: Since the terrorist attacks in Paris, such far-away places as Pennsylvania have experienced a surge in applications for concealed handgun permits. Permit requests have at least doubled in some...
Rush Limbaugh uses CPRC research on mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones
On October 5, 2015 Rush Limbaugh mentioned some research that the CPRC had put together, though the source that he used doesn't acknowledge the research as coming from us. The source of Limbaugh's number is available in our report here where we go through each and...