Dr. John Lott and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) have a new piece up at Fox News on the dangers of gun-free zones. Unfortunately, the Virginia Beach City Council is moving in the exact opposite way and wanting to ban guns in city buildings. Does anyone there realize...
Many politicians and gun control advocates say if more guns mean fewer mass public shootings, the United States should be the safest place in the world. Indeed, the US has relatively few mass public shootings compared to the rest of the world, but we would have even...
Dr. John Lott joined Sebastian Gorka on America First to talk about what the media keep secret about mass public shootings, namely that they keep on occurring in gun-free zones. 98% of mass public shootings occur in gun-free zones, where victims are completely...
George Parry, a former federal and state prosecutor, had a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 5th, where he relied heavily on our research. We have added notes below where the links that were provided were to the Crime Prevention Research Center, though even...
Dr. Lott talks about the Crime Prevention Research Center's research on mass public shootings. (Tuesday, June 11, 2019, from 6:33 to 6:42 AM)
St. Louis, MO, April 17, 2019 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) Thank goodness this law-abiding citizen was conceal carrying his gun at the time. A man turned the tables on an alleged robber Tuesday night, shooting the man three times after being confronted on a St. Louis...
On June 5th, our research on mass public shootings got significant coverage by local news outlets throughout the United States. The news coverage starts this way: WASHINGTON (SBG) - Elected leaders on Capitol Hill were quick to respond with familiar calls for action...
The Crime Prevention Research Center played some role in alerting Fox News about this news story. This is the only national news coverage that has pointed out this mass public shooting has occurred in a gun-free zone and that one of the victims wanted to take her...
Dr. John Lott spoke with host Mark Walters about the Democratic Presidential Candidates proposals for more gun-control, including a complete ban on so-called "silencers" that actually do not make guns silent. Also discussed were the dangers of gun-free zones and how...
Newsweek discusses the evidence put forward for eliminating gun-free zones at schools. . . . The "98 percent" statistic cited by Massie was pulled from a November 2018 Chicago Tribune op-ed by the conservative author of The War on Guns, John R. Lott Jr., who is also...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Washington Times on how media bias completely distorts people's understanding of guns and gun control. The piece starts this way: Kate Nixon worked as a compliance manager on the second floor of Operations Building 2 in the...
By Branco at the LibertyAlliance.com