The notion that Mexican drug gangs are getting machine guns from the United States is absurd, but that is the claim in CBS's new show Coyote staring Michael Chiklis. Episode 5 shows an AR-15 as a machine gun and Chiklis is asked to figure out what happened to a...
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The Gun Control Advocates Mantra: “Police violence is gun violence”
With the movement to defund police all the rage, gun-control activists now don’t trust police with guns. The Trace, a Bloomberg-funded outlet dedicated to gun-control advocacy, is probably at odds with police in part because officers are so overwhelmingly in favor of...
On America’s Voice News: National Guard in D.C. to Maintain Safety and What the Biden Administration Means for Gun Ownership
Dr. John Lott appeared on America's Voice News about the use of the National Guard in D.C. to maintain safety and what the Biden administration means for gun ownership. (Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 1:20 to 1:27 PM)
On the Michigan Talk Network: What the Biden Administration means for Gun Ownership
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about what the Biden administration will mean for gun ownership. (Wednesday, January 20, 2021, from 8:35 to 8:44 AM)
CBS’s Coyote: Uses a retired law and order border agent to make arguments for letting illegal aliens into US
Here are very short clips from three different episodes of Coyote (Season 1, Episodes 2, 3, and 4), but it will give you a taste of how the show makes arguments for letting illegal aliens into the US and how Mexico's problems are really a result of the US. The attacks...
Despite Claims that they care about promoting Social Distancing, Virginia bans online classes for concealed handgun permits
While Virginia colleges and K-12 schools have moved to online classes and the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles has waived certain training requirements for Class B commercial driver’s licenses, as of January 1, 2021, Virginia’s...
Nikki Goeser on the Phil Valentine Show 99.7 WTN: Tennessee Prison System Accused of Putting Prisoner Rights Groups Before Victims
The CPRC's Nikki Goeser talked to Phil Valentine on the giant 100,000 watt WWTN-FM. They discussed how the Tennessee prison system won't take away the good time early release credits from her husband's murderer who has continued threatening her and stalking her from...
At Newsweek: Don’t Let Anti-Gun Activists Weaponize the Capitol Hill Riot
Dr. John Lott has returned to the CPRC and he had this piece today at Newsweek. After the riot at the U.S. Capitol, gun control organizations warn that armed rioters at state capitols across the country on Inauguration Day pose a threat to our democracy. They claim...
UPDATE: Do Right-to-carry laws reduce violent crime?
Original Post November 2, 2014: A 2012 survey of the literature in the University of Maryland Law Review is available here. Some of the peer-reviewed research showing that concealed carry laws reduce violent crime is listed here. This list includes papers using US...
At Townhall: A Dark Moment for Democracy Affirms the Need for the Second Amendment
Andrew Pollack, the new president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, has a new op-ed up at Townhall.com. Businesses in major American cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C. erected plywood barricades for fear of election day violence. To...
More problems with the latest FBI Reports: 15% of Active Shooter Attacks During 2014-19 were Stopped Or Mitigated By Citizens Legally Carrying Guns, But Misses More than Half The Cases
The FBI claims that there were 27 active shooting cases in 2018 and 28 cases in 2019, but they have missed at least seven cases, with at least six cases where a concealed handgun permit holder stopped the attack. So there should be nine cases (14.52%) where people...
TV Bias On Guns: MTV’s Teen Wolf “I Don’t Like Guns”
Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character comes out and says: “I don’t like guns.” In an episode titled "The Benefactor," MTV's Teen Wolf has an episode where they first show a man almost accidentally shooting his son...











