This past Friday saw 203,086 background check requests for gun purchases, setting a new single-day record, the FBI reported Saturday. That is 9.4% higher than the previous record set last year and 15.6% over the number in 2014. The top three day records and four of...
Support us when you shop on Cyber Monday. Go to smile.amazon.com/ch/80-0917179 and Amazon donates to Crime Prevention Research Center. Your help is greatly appreciated. You can learn more about the CPRC here and also donate directly here. Thank you very much!
The Crime Prevention Research Center research has had an impact. One needs to look no further than how our research ranks compared to the attention given to 358,320 researchers (economics, law, business, criminology and 20 other disciplines) as shown at the Social...
Dr. John Lott talked to Andrew Wilkow on Sirus XM The Patriot about the current gun control debate. (Monday, November 20th, 2017, from 1:20 to 1:40 PM)
Ken Stern has been doing a book tour for his new book “Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right." While Stern says that he still supports all the "reasonable" gun control measures, he showed that he was still open to empirical...
Dr. John Lott talked to Gavin McInnes about whether gun laws will make us safer. During their discussion, they talked about everything from background checks to assault weapon bans to gun-free zones and about mass public shootings around the world. From the CRTV...
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio to discuss another type of politicization of the FBI that occurred during the Obama administration. (Tuesday, November 14, 2017, from 7:20 to 7:30 PM) Lars Larson’s show is listened to by over 1.25 million...
Huffington Post, November 15, 2017 . . . I have been following a similar debate about guns which broke out more than 20 years ago, a.k.a. John Lott versus Everyone Else, and not only does the debate about the role of ‘armed citizens’ seem to be heating up again, given...
Dr. John Lott talked to Joyce Kaufman on the giant 50,000 watt WFTL-AM radio station in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. They discussed failures in the NICS background check system. (Thursday, November 16, 2017, from 1:35 —1:50 PM)
A new very short report from a few people at the Harvard Business School claims that waiting periods reduce homicides, though they find that there is no consistent effect on suicides. The report is titled "Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths," and it was...
Dr. John Lott joined John Carlson Show to discuss a Seattle Times editorial titled "Tougher laws are our only hope to stem gun-violence epidemic." Lott discussed what is the best way to look at data to investigate the impact of gun control on crime rates, as well as...