Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News where he explains how to evaluate the Democrat's reaction to Trump's Supreme Court pick. Here is a simple rule of thumb: you can judge the caliber of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee by how angry the Democrats get. The...
Month: January 2017
CPRC talked to Larry Marino on Los Angeles’ KRLA-AM about using Fact-checkers to determine what is real news
Dr. John Lott talked to KRLA's Larry Marino about an op-ed that he had in the Orange County Register about using fact checker to filter fake news. KRLA is a large 50,000 Watt radio station in Los Angeles. (Sunday, January 29, 2017)
CPRC on The Charles Butler Radio Show to talk about Concealed Carry
Dr. John Lott talks to Charles Butler on his national radio show about the debate over concealed handgun permits and how permit holders stop terrorism. (Monday, January 30, 2017 from 9:20 to 9:45 AM)
The War on Guns Gets Another Positive Review
Dr. Lott's book "The War on Guns" was reviewed in February 2017 issue of The American Rifleman.
CPRC at the Wall Street Journal: Brussels Is Wrong on Guns: Instead of passing bans terrorists will ignore, arm off-duty police; In what European countries can’t police carry off-duty?
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the Wall Street Journal. These are just a few of the nutty things in the new EU rules on gun ownership that were approved Wednesday by a Parliamentary committee. The full Parliament still has to vote on the bill. Below are the rules...
A lot of news coverage for the CPRC
Besides the extensive coverage that we received in the Associated Press, here are some of the media attention that we received. National Review, January 25, 2017 Over at the Crime Research Prevention Center, John Lott Jr. notes that the number of “constitutional...
CPRC at Fox News: If you want to see academics making fools of themselves, look at Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearings
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Fox News on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday regarding Senator Jeff Sessions. Unfortunately, Senator Dianne Feinstein delayed the vote on Sessions citing concerns about his views on women. The piece below...
CPRC in the Santa Fe New Mexican: Background check bill — right for New Mexico?
With the debate heating up in New Mexico over Michael Bloomberg's push for Universal Background checks, Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the newspaper for the state's capitol. Let’s say a stalker threatens a female friend of yours. She asks you if she can borrow your...
CPRC at the Daily Caller: BuzzFeed’s Founder Spreads False Information. I Was One Of His Victims
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Daily Caller that discussed Jonah Peretti's past of impersonating At the moment, media outlets want nothing to do with BuzzFeed, the “news” website that published unverified, “fake” allegations against Donald Trump. The...
The New York Times’ false claims about what the public and their selective experts think about gun control
On January 10, 2017, the New York Times had an article claiming that both the public and their selective experts favored more gun control. From their article: The academics in our panel — many of the country’s best empirical researchers on gun policy — were far more...
CPRC at the National Review: The New York Times’ Bogus Crime Data about Concealed-Handgun Permit Holders
Dr. John Lott has another piece at National Review about the New York Times continuing to disseminate clear false claims by the New York Times (though this could just as well be written about other publications such as The Hill): For the fourth time in less than two...
CPRC Response to Washington Post article on guns in statehouse buildings
As we have previously discussed, the Associated Press used our research on state capitols that allow people to carry firearms. Here is the letter that we sent into the Washington Post: Dear Letters Editor: Your article grossly exaggerates the risks of concealed...