Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece up at Fox News on the reaction to the Texas church shooting. The piece starts this way: Before knowing almost anything about Sunday’s mass public shooting, gun control advocates are once again calling for more gun control. The...
Yesterday, we put up a post on the CPRC website noting that a law-abiding citizen had stopped the mass public shooting at the Texas church. We were putting this out hours before the national media was picking up on this important story. Dr. Lott had put this up on...
UPDATE: Here is a dramatic article describing how Devin Patrick Kelley was going back to kill the people he had initially wounded when Stephen Willeford entered the front door of the church and shot Kelley. As Farida Brown lay on the floor in the last row of pews in...
Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Alabama), November 4, 2017 When it comes to the nation-wide arms race, Alabama is in the lead. A study completed by the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that the numbers of people in the country having concealed weapons permits...
Dr. John Lott talked to Michael Dukes about whether those opposing gun control should cite Chicago as evidence that gun control doesn't work. They also talked about other issues such as the push for universal background checks and the claim that owning a gun in the...
In a new piece in The Hill, Dr. John Lott discusses the debate over what will stop attacks with vehicles, such as the one this week in New York City. With an attack that had been planned for over a year, the notion that you are going to be able to keep a killer like...
Dr. John Lott was on the the Steve Gruber Show to discuss how CPL holders are far better drivers. Lott also talked about his testimony before the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, The media coverage has been critical and distorted what Dr. Lott...
Dr. John Lott debated Steve Gruber about Ken Stern's new book and about the false claims regarding police that seem to be motivating the kneeling during the National Anthem at NFL games. Our piece at Fox News on the NFL is available here. The Fox News segment with...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about why Democrats should embrace FBI background check for voters and guns. (Tuesday, September 27, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
Dr. John Lott debated Steve Gruber about the most recent push to ban guns after the Las Vegas attack. (Tuesday, October 11, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
Lawyers Jeffrey Green and C. Kevin Marshall on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed a Writ of Certiorari in a case of whether an officer can perform an “annoying, frightening, and perhaps humiliating”” frisk without assessing whether...
In 2015, the CPRC submitted Amicus Briefs to the 9th Circuit regarding California's 10-day waiting period for those who have already passed a background check and already own guns. A copy of our brief is available here. Here is the Summary of Argument from our Amicus...