John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a national gun rights advocacy group, told ABC News that it's "incredibly unusual" that the Covenant School shooter's writings haven't already been released. "To me, the important thing is to learn the...
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CPRC in the News: San Diego Union-Tribune, San Antonio Express, Daily Caller, Forbes, Columbus Dispatch, Breitbart (2), Yahoo! News, and The Week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokN5moqbgc "94 percent of public mass shooting occurred in a gun-free zone," Breitbart News's AWR Hawkins cites a study by the Crime Prevention Research Center. AWR Hawkins, "America Has a Gun-Free-Zone Problem," Breitbart News, May 6,...
CPRC in the News: The Epoch Times, The New York Sun, Louisville Courier Journal, Yahoo! News, and much more
The president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, John Lott, told the Sun that citizens who use firearms in self-defense are required under law to demonstrate reasonable fear for their lives. “Stand Your Ground laws require a reasonable person standard,”...
CPRC in the News: NewsMax, The Hill, New York Sun, Foundation for Economic Education, Red State, and much more
. . . Despite oodles of data showing that defensive gun uses (DGUs) occur quite frequently, the gun control crowd insists on deceptively claiming that these situations rarely arise, which means people should not have the right to keep and bear arms. But John Lott,...
CPRC in the News: Detroit News (2), Detroit Free Press, WoodTV (Grand Rapids), Lansing State Journal, and more
While most of the testimony presented Thursday was in favor of the 11-bill package, Nikki Goeser spoke out again the addition of new laws. Goeser’s husband was shot and killed in front of her in April 2009. “There are currently involuntary commitment laws that already...
CPRC in the News: Washington Post, Yahoo! News, The New York Sun (2), PJ Media, and much more
In his Feb. 5 Fact Checker column, “What’s more common: A ‘good guy’ without a gun or a ‘good guy’ with one?,” Glenn Kessler made a great case for the FBI to include all incidents of active shooters stopped or curtailed by good Samaritans, armed or not. . . . Perhaps...
CPRC in the News: Breitbart (2), NewsMax, The New York Sun, Independent Institute, Chicago Thinker, and much more
. . . There are currently 25 states with constitutional carry. When there were only 13–Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming–the Crime Prevention Research Center...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, Just the News, Axios, Orange County Register, El Tiempo Latino, and much more
“Does Biden talk to police to see why they do what they do? Biden doesn’t understand policing,” John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said Monday. “If he wants to increase retention, don’t immediately release criminals &...
CPRC in the News: Fox News, The Epoch Times, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Birmingham News (Alabama), MSN, Star Tribune (Casper, Wyoming), and much more
Broome spoke the day after the Crime Prevention Research Center released a report saying about 73% of all murders in the U.S. took place in 5% of the nation’s counties. "Murder isn’t a nationwide problem," according to the study based on interpretation of the FBI’s...
CPRC in the News: Fox News (2), Orlando Sentinel, Yahoo! News, Missoula’s KGVO, Bearing Arms, and more
Greg Wehner, "New Jersey governor signs new gun law, drawing lawsuit from the NRA," Fox News, December 22, 2022. . . . Americans have frequently used legal guns to thwart crimes, defend themselves or their homes and even stop mass shootings. Some estimates...
CPRC in the News: Fox News (2), New York Post, Creators Syndicate, Business & Politics Review, and much more
A recent study conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center found there were 22 times more attacks against pro-life groups since the leak in early May of a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade compared to attacks on pro-choice organizations. A...
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“Violent crime is becoming common in Sweden,” as it is throughout the European Europe, report John R. Lott & James Varney at RealClearInvestigations. And an RCI analysis “strongly” links the surge with immigration: “Each one percentage point increase in immigrant...