Dr. John Lott spoke with Steve Gruber about the national news media's silly exaggerations of the U.S. border closure. We will not run out of avocados. We will just get them from other sources. The U.S. spends 50% more educating illegals than we spend on food from...
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At Townhall.com: The Second Amendment Stories the National Media Fail to Report…or Get Completely Wrong
Dr. John Lott has a new piece on mass public shootings that have been stopped by concealed handgun permit holders. The piece starts this way: Did you hear about this case? A man went into a dentist’s office, killed a woman, and took aim at others before being wounded...
Denver Post interviewing the CPRC about the 20th Anniversary of Columbine massacre
Dr. John Lott was one of the people interviewed by the Denver Post about the 20th Anniversary of Columbine massacre. Here is the discussion that they had with him. John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of “More Guns, Less Crime,” said...
CPRC’s Nikki Goeser on The Michigan Talk Network: Red Flag Laws
Nikki Goeser talks with host Steve Gruber about Red Flag Laws. Nikki Goeser is a survivor of a violent crime in a Gun-Free Zone, where her husband was murdered in front of her by her stalker. Even after going through something as horrific as this, Nikki understands...
CRPC in the Associated Press: On Florida approaching 2 million concealed handgun permit holders
The Associated Press has an article on Florida approaching 2 million concealed handgun permit holders. The attached national graph is from the Associated Press article. Florida had a total of 1,971,997 currently valid concealed weapon permits as of March 31, according...
Defensive gun uses by people legally carrying guns over the past two months
Sullivan County, TN, February 13, 2019 (WJHL News 11) This first example is the type of case you only would have seen on the national news if the law-abiding citizen wasn't here with a gun to stop the attack. A shooting at a dentist office in Colonial Heights,...
Toronto Police Association says that national handgun ban won’t stop criminals from getting guns
With Canada government considering a ban on handguns, the Toronto Police Association has spoken out against the ban. "There's no way in my world or any world I know that this would have an impact on somebody who's going to go out and buy an illegal gun and use it to...
At National Review: Bernie Sanders Is Wrong: Felons Shouldn’t Vote from Prison
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at NationalReview.com about Senator Bernie Sanders' proposal that felons in prison be able to vote. The piece starts this way: Democrats used to argue that once felons had served their time, they had paid their debts to society and should...
Debate on The Red Elephants between Steven “Destiny” Bonnell and John Lott on Gun Control
Steven "Destiny" Bonnell and Dr. John Lott debated gun control on the Red Elephants and Destiny youtube channels. Mr. Bonnell has a large following by young people on social media. While this was billed as a debate, it turned into more of a discussion than a debate....
At Townhall.com: The Push to Demonize Private Gun Ownership Never Stops
Dr. John Lott has a new piece on how television shows are so biased against gun ownership. The piece starts this way. The push to demonize private gun ownership never stops. Michael Bloomberg and other gun control advocates are continuing to pour hundreds of millions...
New Research in the journal Econ Journal Watch: “Is the United States an Outlier in Public Mass Shootings?”
Dr. John Lott and our research director Professor Carl Moody have piece on what we believe has been one of the bigger academic frauds. The paper on an international comparison of mass public shootings can be downloaded here. Abstract In 2016 Adam Lankford published a...
On Dana Loesch’s Relentless: Study Shows “Assault Weapons” and Magazine Bans Do Not Lower Homicide Rates
Dr. John Lott talk with Dana Loesch about the false belief that banning Assault Weapons will somehow reduce homicides. Also discussed is the fact that gun-control advocates are trying to use poorly done studies to convince the public that concealed handguns are a huge...










