Dr. John Lott spoke with host Mark Walters about the Democratic Presidential Candidates proposals for more gun-control, including a complete ban on so-called "silencers" that actually do not make guns silent. Also discussed were the dangers of gun-free zones and how...
Month: June 2019
Mention in Newsweek: House Republicans who reintroduce bill eliminating all gun-free school zones rely on CPRC research
Newsweek discusses the evidence put forward for eliminating gun-free zones at schools. . . . The "98 percent" statistic cited by Massie was pulled from a November 2018 Chicago Tribune op-ed by the conservative author of The War on Guns, John R. Lott Jr., who is also...
At the Washington Times: Why balanced reporting about guns is crucial
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Washington Times on how media bias completely distorts people's understanding of guns and gun control. The piece starts this way: Kate Nixon worked as a compliance manager on the second floor of Operations Building 2 in the...
Cartoon: How terrorists react when they see a gun-free zone sign
By Branco at the LibertyAlliance.com
Cartoon: Gun-free zones: Hey, can’t you read?
BokBluster has this cartoon at Creators.com
On the Sinclair Broadcasting Network: The Virginia Beach Attack, another shooting in a gun-free zone
Dr. John Lott talked to Eric Bolling on the Sinclair Broadcasting Network's America This Week about the dangers of gun-free zones both in schools and at the Virginia Beach municipal building attack. He also talked about the new research that the Crime Prevention...
At Townhall: Mandating Gun Locks Can Have Unintended Consequences
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall.com on the money put into the Texas state budget to advertise the need for the safe storage of guns. Last year, right after a student fatally shot eight classmates and two teachers at Santa Fe High School, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan...
On the Kerry Lutz Show: On all the Gun Control laws being pushed by all the Democrat Presidential Candidates
Dr. John Lott talked to Kerry Lutz about the push for more gun control laws by the Democratic Presidential candidates and also Michael Bloomberg's unrelenting push for more gun control regulations. (Monday, June 10, 2019)
DRAMATIC REVELATION: The day of the Virginia Beach shooting one of the victims considered taking a gun to work over concerns about a colleague, but didn’t because of gun-free zone
We have previously pointed out how the shooting at the Virginia Beach municipal building was a gun-free zone. From The Virginian-Pilot (June 10, 2019) has this dramatic revelation: Kate Nixon considered taking a gun to work on May 31, the day a co-worker killed her...
Crime Prevention Research Center in the News: Fox News, Daily Caller, National Review, Townhall, and many other places
Daily Caller, May 15, 2019 Here’s a truth that every American should consider: There are at least 18 states that allow teachers to carry guns. And yet, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center, there has NEVER been a mass shooting attempted in any...
On the Sandy Rios Show to discuss the Virginia Beach Shooting
Dr. John Lott talked to Sandy Rios on her national radio show about the mass public shooting at a Virginia Beach Municipal Building occurring at yet another place where the victims were banned from protecting themselves and what can be done to help prevent something...
On the Sinclair Broadcast Group: “Mass shootings in US compared with other countries”
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by Sinclair Broadcast Group about the Crime Prevention Research Center's count of mass public shootings across countries. Sinclair references Snopes.com's criticism of our work because we looked at the per capita rate of attacks across...












