Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece up at Fox News on the reaction to the Texas church shooting. The piece starts this way: Before knowing almost anything about Sunday’s mass public shooting, gun control advocates are once again calling for more gun control. The...
Month: November 2017
CPRC ad on Twitter not approved because of “inappropriate language”
Yesterday, we put up a post on the CPRC website noting that a law-abiding citizen had stopped the mass public shooting at the Texas church. We were putting this out hours before the national media was picking up on this important story. Dr. Lott had put this up on...
Updated: Witness to Texas Church shooting: a neighbor shot suspect causing him to leave the scene
UPDATE: Here is a dramatic article describing how Devin Patrick Kelley was going back to kill the people he had initially wounded when Stephen Willeford entered the front door of the church and shot Kelley. As Farida Brown lay on the floor in the last row of pews in...
CPRC in the News: Washington Post (2), Columbus Dispatch, Hartford Courant, The Federalist, and others
Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Alabama), November 4, 2017 When it comes to the nation-wide arms race, Alabama is in the lead. A study completed by the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that the numbers of people in the country having concealed weapons permits...
On the Michael Dukes Show to discuss whether cities with the toughest gun laws have the highest murder rates
Dr. John Lott talked to Michael Dukes about whether those opposing gun control should cite Chicago as evidence that gun control doesn't work. They also talked about other issues such as the push for universal background checks and the claim that owning a gun in the...
In The Hill: Background checks on Truck rentals? “The best way for New York to enhance public safety? More guns”
In a new piece in The Hill, Dr. John Lott discusses the debate over what will stop attacks with vehicles, such as the one this week in New York City. With an attack that had been planned for over a year, the notion that you are going to be able to keep a killer like...
On the Steve Gruber Show to discuss how CPL holders are far better drivers
Dr. John Lott was on the the Steve Gruber Show to discuss how CPL holders are far better drivers. Lott also talked about his testimony before the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, The media coverage has been critical and distorted what Dr. Lott...







