Dr. John Lott talked to Jason Rantz on Settle's giant 50,000-watt KTTH to discuss Lott's piece at Real Clear Investigation: Despite What Biden Says, Guns Factor In Only A Small Percentage Of Violent Crimes. (Friday, July 23, 2021, from 5:35 to 5:44 PM)
Month: July 2021
On the Michigan Talk Network: Discussing Constitutional Carry and How Biden’s focus on Violent Crime ignores that 92% of Violent Crime Doesn’t Involve Guns
Dr. John Lott appeared on the Michigan Talk Network about the move to Constitutional Carry and how Biden's focus on gun control to reduce violent crime when 92% of violent crime doesn't involve guns. (Wednesday, July 21, 2021, from 8:35 to 8:43 AM)
Last year because Philadelphia shutdown permitting, the city saw a 19% drop in concealed handgun permits even as gun sales jumped by 158%
Last year we put together a list of states that stopped issuing concealed handgun permits. While Pennsylvania issued more permits, police in Philly and other Pa. counties stopped issuing license-to-carry permits to gun owners amid the coronavirus outbreak. It appears...
NewsMax’s Chris Salcedo Show: While Biden focuses on gun crime, 92% of violent crimes don’t use guns
Dr. John Lott appeared on NewsMax's Chris Salcedo Show to discuss how Biden's gun control regulations will disarm law-abiding Americans and how his focus on guns ignores that 92 percent of violent crime doesn't involve guns. The sources for that information are...
At Real Clear Politics: Biden Reveals His True Goal: To Ban Most Guns
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics and the South Dade News Leader (Dade County, Florida) about Biden's recent statements about gun control. If there was any doubt that President Biden wants to ban the vast majority of guns in the United States, he...
On Armed American Radio: Discussing Biden’s Gun Control Push
Dr. John Lott talks to Mark Walters on his national radio show, Armed American Radio, about Lott's appearance on C-SPAN as well as Biden's gun control push. (Sunday, July 18, 2021, from 8:05 to 9:00 PM)
On Denver’s KLZ Radio: Violent crime is mainly not about guns
Dr. John Lott talked to Denver's KLZ Radio to discuss Lott's piece at Real Clear Investigation: Despite What Biden Says, Guns Factor In Only A Small Percentage Of Violent Crimes. (Wednesday, July 21, 2021, from 6:35 to 6::45 PM)
On Chicago’s WLS: Is violent crime largely about guns?
Dr. John Lott talked to John Howell on Chicago's WLS to discuss Lott's piece at Real Clear Investigation: Despite What Biden Says, Guns Factor In Only A Small Percentage Of Violent Crimes. (Wednesday, July 21, 2021, from 7:35 to 7:45 PM)
CPRC in the News: Washington Examiner, Seeking Alpha, PJ Media, Real Clear Politics, Just the News, and much more
Economist and gun rights advocate John Lott wrote the successful and breakthrough book More Guns, Less Crime in 1998, and the anti-gun Left has never forgiven him for it.Anti-gunners refuse to appear with the author, speaker, numbers cruncher, and president...
On Chicago’s most listened to morning radio show AM 560: On the January 6th Capitol Riot, violence in Chicago, and the gun control debate
Crime Prevention Research Center's John Lott Jr. on Jan 6. Capitol Riot, violence in Chicago, and the gun control debate. (Wednesday, July 7, 2021, my portion of the )
Less than 0.1% of guns are used in crime in any given year
The National Crime Victimization Survey, in the latest year that it is available, 2019, shows that firearms were used 440,830 incidents for rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults (Table 25). The FBI Uniform Crime Reports shows that firearms were used...
On The Lars Larson Show: Is violent crime largely about guns?
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on both his Northwest and National radio shows to discuss Lott's piece at Real Clear Investigation: Despite What Biden Says, Guns Factor In Only A Small Percentage Of Violent Crimes. (Wednesday, July 21, 2021, from 5:35 to 5:44...