Steven "Destiny" Bonnell and Dr. John Lott debated gun control on the Red Elephants and Destiny youtube channels. Mr. Bonnell has a large following by young people on social media. While this was billed as a debate, it turned into more of a discussion than a debate....
Year: 2019
At Townhall.com: The Push to Demonize Private Gun Ownership Never Stops
Dr. John Lott has a new piece on how television shows are so biased against gun ownership. The piece starts this way. The push to demonize private gun ownership never stops. Michael Bloomberg and other gun control advocates are continuing to pour hundreds of millions...
New Research in the journal Econ Journal Watch: “Is the United States an Outlier in Public Mass Shootings?”
Dr. John Lott and our research director Professor Carl Moody have piece on what we believe has been one of the bigger academic frauds. The paper on an international comparison of mass public shootings can be downloaded here. Abstract In 2016 Adam Lankford published a...
On Dana Loesch’s Relentless: Study Shows “Assault Weapons” and Magazine Bans Do Not Lower Homicide Rates
Dr. John Lott talk with Dana Loesch about the false belief that banning Assault Weapons will somehow reduce homicides. Also discussed is the fact that gun-control advocates are trying to use poorly done studies to convince the public that concealed handguns are a huge...
Television Show Bias against guns: CBS’s Bull has man purposefully shoot his wife and then claim it was an accident
CBS's Bull continues its consistent bias against gun ownership (previous shows during Season 3 are here and here). In Season 3, episode 18, the episode fits gun control advocates claims about the dangers of guns in the home, particularly their assertions about...
Charlie Kirk references the Crime Prevention Research Center’s research on crime by illegal aliens
Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA references the Crime Prevention Research Center's research on crime by illegal aliens in Arizona. This is part of a much longer statement that Kirk made, but his first point is to cite CPRC research. More information on our research...
On the Michigan Talk Network: Pennsylvania Democrats Want To Register Your Guns
Dr. Lott spoke with host Steve Gruber about how costly it is for states to go and register guns as well as the fact that virtually no crimes are ever solved because of registration. (Tuesday, March 2, 2019 6:45-6:54am)
At the Washington Times: The folly of ‘Red Flag’ gun laws
Dr. John Lott's newest piece at the Washington Times discusses some of the problems with the Red Flag laws. Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams in Colorado made news Monday over his willingness to go to jail over his refusal to enforce what will soon be the state’s new...
At Fox News: Media exaggerate impact of US-Mexico border closure. UPDATE: Everytown attacks
Dr. John Lott's newest op-ed discusses the new media's grossly exaggerated costs from closing the U.S.-Mexico border. He also goes through some of our research regarding the costs of illegal aliens. (Not surprisingly, Everytown's paid PR secretary Adam Sege keeps...
Television Show Bias against guns: The constant false claims that gun registration being used to solve crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmr1tZgyYkE Television entertainment shows keep pushing a myth by gun control advocates that a gun registry is an effective way to solve crime. Their reasoning is straightforward: If a gun has been left at a crime scene, the registry...
Crime Prevention Research Center in the News: The Mercury News, Deseret News, East Bay Times, Many Nebraska newspapers, and Breitbart
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah), March 22, 2019 John Lott, an economist and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of the 1998 book "More Guns, Less Crime," said that the best way to ensure the safety of the American people is not...
Young Turks attacks Ben Shapiro for quoting the Crime Prevention Research Center’s research on Mass Public Shootings
The Young Turk's Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur spent a recent show attacking Ben Shapiro for referencing the Crime Prevention Research Center's research on Mass Public Shootings around the world (156,000 views as of March 21, 2019). Following an earlier attack by...












