Dr. John Lott joined Vicki on the Vicki McKenna Show to go over the varied responses in both the US and globally to the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19. John and Vicki discussed the responses to this pandemic outbreak from countries such as China...
Month: March 2020
Television shows continued obsession with criminals outgunning police with machine guns: Chicago PD and Hawaii Five-O from March 2020
TV shows continually illustrate criminals using machine guns, with police officers in these episodes completely outgunned by multiple criminals with machine guns (Chicago PD S7 E16, March 4, 2020; Hawaii Five-O, Season 10, Episode 20, March 13, 2020). On TV...
At Townhall: Will the Coronavirus Recede as the Spring Arrives?
UPDATE: Even as recently as at least March 31st, the government was still assuming that the Coronavirus is seasonal. "The models predictions have the surge in deaths going into the summer." ORIGINAL: Professor Timothy Craig Allen, a number of our Board of Directors...
On the Rod Arquette Show: On the Trump administration’s quick response to the coronavirus outbreak
Dr. John Lott joined the show to discuss his piece in Townhall about the Trump administration’s quick response to the coronavirus outbreak. (Friday, March 13, 2020, from 6:35 to 6:45 PM)
At Townhall: Gun Sales Soar When People Need Protection
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about the surge in gun sales. Police are cutting back on policing, and Americans are getting scared. Along with toilet paper, they are also buying guns and ammunition. Some are getting concealed handgun permits.“So American …...
At the Washington Times: Democratic presidential candidates incite panic to buy guns not the coronavirus
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at the Washington Times on the increase in gun sales that has occurred over the five or so months. Crises increase gun sales. So, people don’t have to look far right now for an explanation for the recent surge in purchases. But the...
On One America News: Discussing the push for new gun control laws in Virginia
Dr. John Lott was on One America News' The Daily Ledger to discuss the push for more gun control laws in Virginia. (January 21, 2020)
Will warmer weather reduce the impact of the Wuhan coronavirus?
Professor Tim Craig Allen, Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Director of the Center for Pulmonary Pathology, and a member of the CPRC Board of Directors, has worked with Dr. Lott to examine what factors might be...
CPRC in the News
WRCB Channel 3 TV (Chattanooga, Tennessee), March 9, 2020 More women than ever are signing up to take handgun permit courses nationwide. About one-quarter of handgun permit holders nationwide are women according to a study done by the Crime Prevention Research...
On One America News: Exec Director of the Crime Prevention Research Center, Nikki Goeser, on Defending the 2nd Amendment
Nikki Goeser was interviewed by Graham Ledger on One America News about her book, "Stalked and Defenseless." The Daily Ledger is One America News' flag ship show. (December 17, 2019)
At Townhall: Errors in Bidens’ Big Speech on the Coronavirus
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall.com on the enforcement aspects of the Coronavirus. In 2014, former Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously attacked then-Vice President Joe Biden as “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security...
Our work on the Trump administration’s enforcement efforts regarding the Coronavirus read on Sebastian Gorka’s radio show
Sebastian Gorka read Dr. John Lott's op-ed on how the Trump administration is enforcing travel restrictions because of the Coronavirus. Gorka: "Dr. John Lott Jr, who is as far as I am concerned the most preeminent expert on guns and guns violence in America today."...









