A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds that 60% of Likely U.S. Voters support enacting a law in their state requiring the use of paper ballots for all elections, with 38% who Strongly Support it. Even a majority of Democrats and a plurality of liberals support moving to...
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Wyoming Enacts House Bill 172 (HB 172), the “Wyoming Repeal Gun Free Zones Act”
The CPRC was actively involved in helping the law to abolish gun-free zones in Wyoming enacted. Besides writing an op-ed in Wyoming's largest newspaper with state Senator Cheri Steinmetz, who managed the bill through the state Senate, Dr....
CPRC in the News: Students for Liberty, Independent Sentinel, Bearing Arms, KTRH Radio, WOAI Radio, and More
Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs . . . Elected as a member of the Republican Party, Mayor Jacobs has a long libertarian streak running through him, especially when it comes to civil rights and economic freedom. “I was taught, growing up, that there are two ends of the...
Most Voters are Angry about the Waste of Taxpayer Money, Even most Democrats and Liberals, Those with a Graduate School Education are the Least Angry
A new Rasmussen Reports survey shows that 70% of likely voters are angry about the amount of waste, fraud, and abuse in federal government spending, with 45% very angry. Even 60% of Democrats and 53% of liberals are angry, which raises questions about why Democrats...
More Bias on Guns in TV Cop Show: Criminals using machine guns in a battle to Rescue a Criminal in Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ftXlRj9bc As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns...
Washington Post Putting Out Articles on Minority Groups Getting Guns
These articles discuss how blacks and trans people are buying guns for protection. This is quite the change in the Washington Posts' approach to guns. For weeks, men carrying rifles have guarded the roads leading into Lincoln Heights, Ohio, stopping and questioning...
Paramount+’s Landman: “Better to have a gun and not have to use it”
Paramount+'s Landman is continuing Taylor Sheridan putting guns in a relatively positive light. His Yellowstone had a couple of examples of defensive gun use. This episode of Landman (Season 1, 2024) makes the point often made by gun owners that it is better to have a...
The Former Director of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation Wrote a Letter Referencing Our Work. A Letter from a Retired Law Enforcement Officer also References Our Work.
The former director of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation references our work. . Dear editor: . I read with interest and some dismay the dueling letters between Dr. John Lott and lawyer Linda Burtabout the issue of gun free zones. ...
Guns Shown Prominently in 1962 Episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww6gSG_IPbU Here is a discussion of a 1962 episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show. Firearms are shown hanging on the wall in their house. How many TV shows today would have firearms hanging on the walls of a suburban house?
At Real Clear Politics: Family of Stoneman Douglas Victim Still Victimized
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Real Clear Politics. . Being in the public eye brings many challenges, and the Pollack family knows this all too well. In 2018, they lost their daughter, Meadow, in the horrific shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,...
A TV Show makes the Point that an Armed Society is a Polite Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDcMGziws88 Paramount+'s Landman is continuing Taylor Sheridan putting guns in a relatively positive light. His Yellowstone had a couple of examples of defensive gun use (here, here). This episode of Landman (Season 1, Episode 10,...
News Headline: 14-year-old “Child shoots, kills 2 home intruders in self-defense, police say”
Here is another defensive gun use by a child. A 14-year-old Kentucky boy shot and killed two men trying to steal firearms from a safe in a home over the weekend, police said. Clay County 911 got a call at about 4:24 a.m. Sunday about a shooting incident in Manchester....










