Dr. John Lott's latest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Angry that the federal government cut funding to Chicago, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) claimed the Trump administration is contributing to the city’s violence. “So far this year, 3,000 people have been...
There is a long history of those associated with Michael Bloomberg and other gun control groups refusing to debate Dr. John Lott. Here is one example at C-SPAN where Bloomberg's Everytown research director Ted Alcorn refused to debate. Other examples of...
Tucker Carlson interviewed Ken Stern, a former CEO for NPR and a Democrat, about his new book "Republican Like Me." Stern talked to experts in all sorts of areas, and the one person who he was nice enough to mention in this segment was Dr. John Lott. Stern mentioned...
Dr. John Lott debated Ellicott Matthay, a Ph.D. candidate in epidemiology at UC Berkeley, on Southern California's Public Radio (KPCC) about a new study she worked on that examined the impact of gun show regulations. Larry Mantel always does a good interview. As...
A new study from The Annals of Internal Medicine titled "In-State and Interstate Associations Between Gun Shows and Firearm Deaths and Injuries" Results: Compared with the 2 weeks before, postshow firearm injury rates remained stable in regions near California gun...
The former CEO of National Public Radio Ken Stern has a piece at the New York Post on the media's bias on guns. From the NY Post: . . . Over the course of this past year, I have tried to consume media as they do and understand it as a partisan player. It is not so...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News that is based upon our research done by the CPRC on police shootings. The piece starts as follow: The NFL players kneeling during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” in football stadiums across the country are...
While the CPRC covers many crime issues besides gun control and our budget might be a tiny fraction of the budgets for groups on either side of the debate such as Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign, and Gun Owners of America, our research...
Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 19, 2017 As he always does before leaving his house, Pearson, a concealed-carry weapon permit holder, put his pistol on his hip. . . . “About 50 yards in front of me, the driver grabs this young child and starts...
The Hill newspaper and Political have articles about how Democrats want to avoid discussing their views on gun control until after the 2018 mid-term elections. From The Hill: Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) is urging his colleagues to stay away from...
Metro News, October 13, 2017 But John Lott, president of the pro-Second Amendment Crime Prevention Research Center, says these statistics are a kind of feel-good data sets that should rely on a whole host of other information, like culture, demographics and...
Sometimes in the rush “to do something” after a tragedy, politicians put forward bills that could easily cause more harm than good. The legislation being put forward to ban “bump stocks,” a firearm accessory that uses the recoil of the semi-automatic gun to fire more...