Dr. John Lott has started as a contributor for The Hill newspaper, which is read by members of Congress and their staff, though it has a somewhat broader audience. Lott's first piece is on the Democrats consistently pushing fees and taxes that make it difficult for...
Dr. John Lott talked with lawyer Guy Relford on his Saturday afternoon radio show on the big WIBC. Lott and Relford about the heavy geographic concentration of murders in the US. (Saturday, May 6, 2017, from 5:35 to 5:50 PM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Matt Garret on the giant 50,000 watts KOKC about our new research on the geographic concentration of murders in the US. (Thursday, May 4, 2017, 6:20 to 6:50 PM)
Dr. John Lott joined Lars Larson to discuss the CPRC's new research showing the geographic concentration of murders in the US. (Wednesday, May 3, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:52 PM) Lars Larson's show is listened to by over 1.25 million people. Larry Elder also briefly...
On Thursday, May 4th, Georgia became the 12th state that mandates that public universities allow people to carry guns on campus. Following Arkansas, Georgia is also the second state to pass campus carry this year. The other eleven states are: Arkansas, Colorado,...
Arlington, Texas, May 3, 2017 A concealed carry holder is being heralded as a "hero" by Arlington police for preventing mass murder by killing an "incoherent" gunman at a bar Wednesday evening. Before he was shot about 6:15 p.m., the gunman killed the manager of Zona...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by America's 1st Freedom about the geographic concentration of murder in the US. Here is the interview: Many in the so-called “mainstream” media like to use America’s “murder epidemic” as a call to action for more restrictive gun laws....
UPDATED: Democrats say that the support the poor, but when it come to letting the poor defend themselves, if it were up to Democrats in Texas, they would never have lowered the fees paid the state for permits. In Texas only Democrats voted against reducing the fee...
The CPRC budget might be a tiny fraction of the budgets for groups such as Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign, and Gun Owners of America, but our research is getting more attention, at least as measured by website traffic in the US (Alexa...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in Real Clear Politics today on our work on the concentration of murder and gun ownership in the US. The vast majority of murders in the United States occur in just a tiny percentage of counties. In fact, the country can be divided up into...
On Sunday, April 30th, 2017, Dr. John Lott gave a well-attended talk in Atlanta on his book, The War on Guns, though it also contains some new information from a report just issued by the CPRC on how concentrated murders are in the US.. Chris Kellett, a Minnesota...