Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson about John Donohue's newest claim that right-to-carry permit holders are committing violent crime. (Monday, July 10, 2017, from 6:50 to 7:00 PM) Lars Larson’s show is listened to by over 1.25 million people.
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Nine defensive gun uses by people legally carrying guns in public over 20 days
COLUMBIA, Mo., ABC Channel 17, July 9, 2017 Columbia police said they are investigating an attempted armed robbery on Claudell Lane, which the victim says he prevented by pulling his own gun and shooting at the robber. Police said they received calls of gunshots being...
At Fox News: Stanford law prof gets it wrong on guns: right-to-carry reduces crime, not the other way around
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Fox News on a study that has been getting a fair amount of attention over the last couple of weeks. Would you rely almost exclusively on trends in Hawaii to predict violent crime rates in Idaho, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, and...
The flawed and misleading Donohue, Aneja, & Weber Study claiming right-to-carry laws increase violent crime
An new study by John Donohue, Abhay Aneja, and Kyle Weber has received a lot of attention for supposedly finding some evidence that right-to-carry laws increase overall violent crime rates. It has been covered in Newsweek, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Vice, Snopes, and...
Cases where people facing death threats have been denied getting concealed handgun permits
Martin Luther King Jr is probably one of the more famous cases where someone who received numerous death threats was denied getting a permitted concealed handgun for protection. Below is a list of similar cases where people who have their lives threatened have been...
Disabled woman in wheelchair scares off two men armed with a knife
From Fox Channel 8 in Cleveland, Ohio: . . . “It was last Monday morning around 10:30,” Melinda Vandal told Fox 8. “I looked at the door and there was a man, right there, right outside looking like he was going for my door.” She said she saw another man cutting the...
Kesten Green on Australia’s The Bolt Report about whether more guns mean less crime
Kesten Green, a senior fellow with the CPRC and researcher at the University of South Australia Business School, was on SKY News' The Bold Report to discuss how gun ownership deters violent crime. The discussion starts off with a recent news story from Australia...
Milwaukee police union president talks about how law-abiding permit holders are: police have not arrested “even one”
"I have never had a conversation with you, chief, relative to you displaying that we are arresting an overwhelming amount of people, or even one person, who's committed a crime while carrying a CCW (permit,)," said Mike Crivello, president of the Milwaukee Police...
CPRC in the News: Bloomberg Businessweek, Detroit Free Press, Washington Examiner, Maine Sun Journal and others
Breitbart.com, June 15, 2017 Congressmen Louie Gohmert (R-TX) noted Dr. John Lott's work in an interview that he did on SiriusXM radio. “We cannot allow Washington D.C. to continue to be a place where only the criminals and the police have guns. That needs to change....
At The Hill: Crime pays: How Michael Brown’s family cashed in
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in The Hill newspaper on the $1.5 million "secret" payment made by Ferguson to the Michael Brown family. The piece starts this way: First, Michael Brown robbed a store. Then he viciously assaulted a policeman, fighting for the officer’s...
In America’s 1st Freedom: “Finding America’s Murder Problem”
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On the Jim Bohannon morning show to discuss the aftermath of the Alexandria shooting — well worth listening to
Dr. John Lott talked to Jim Bohannon about where the gun debate stands after the Alexandria shooting. “America in the Morning” is a nation wide syndicated radio show. The material for these two topics can be seen in these op-eds. At Fox News: "Why our heated...