The National Judicial College recently surveyed judges around the country in 2017 and found that judges carry concealed handguns at much higher rates than the general population. While a number of states still ban judges from carrying concealed handguns, the National...
In February 2017, we posted links to news stories discussing how a woman named Kystie Jaehnen had come to the aid of an officer who was being beaten by a criminal. Sergeant William Halbig, President of Laughery Valley Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, posted this...
Dr. John Lott's newest article at The Hill newspaper starts this way: Another mass public shooting in another gun-free zone, and yet again the media ignores it. Right at the front of the Waffle House restaurant in Antioch, Tennessee was a sign prohibiting firearms....
Dr. John Lott will be speaking at the NRA annual meeting on Sunday, May 6 from 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, rooms D163 & 165. The title of his talk is: "The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against the False Claims...
Dr. John Lott's newest op-ed at the Daily Caller started this way: For those who may have forgotten, Barack Obama reminded many last week what made him such a polarizing president. In a Time magazine essay commending student gun control activists, Obama resorted to...
In Florida and New Jersey students have been punished for going to a gun range outside of school hours. In New Jersey this week, a school suspended two students who posted pictures of them going to gun range last weekend. A New Jersey school district that allegedly...
We have previously run into trouble with Twitter censoring our activity. Gavin McGinnis recently posted a Tweet linking to some of our research correcting false statements made by Vox.com on guns. But Twitter provided the following warning: So what does "sensitive...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about the Toronto SUV massacre and the Waffle House shooting as another gun-free zone. (Tuesday, April 24, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson on WIND-AM in Chicago about the calls for banning AR-15s and other "assault weapons" and what about banning semi-automatic. He also talked about the danger of gun-free zones. (Tuesday, February 20, 2018, from 9:05 to...
Should teachers and staff at schools be armed? John Stossel and producer Maxim Lott made a video analyzing that question, and used CPRC research to do so. More information on concealed handguns at schools is available here. There are a couple of nitpicking points to...
Terrorist vehicle attacks with 4 or more fatalities are still relatively rare, though they are becoming more frequent. Radical Muslims committed 83% of mass public attacks committed up through the end of 2017. Including attacks where fewer than 4 victims...
On Sunday, April 22, 2018, 4 people were killed by Travis Reinking at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee. As is far too common, the Waffle House was a gun-free zone (pictures shown below). Waffle House has continued to have a gun-free zone policy. Here is a...