Arlington, Texas, May 3, 2017 A concealed carry holder is being heralded as a "hero" by Arlington police for preventing mass murder by killing an "incoherent" gunman at a bar Wednesday evening. Before he was shot about 6:15 p.m., the gunman killed the manager of Zona...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by America's 1st Freedom about the geographic concentration of murder in the US. Here is the interview: Many in the so-called “mainstream” media like to use America’s “murder epidemic” as a call to action for more restrictive gun laws....
UPDATED: Democrats say that the support the poor, but when it come to letting the poor defend themselves, if it were up to Democrats in Texas, they would never have lowered the fees paid the state for permits. In Texas only Democrats voted against reducing the fee...
The CPRC budget might be a tiny fraction of the budgets for groups such as Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign, and Gun Owners of America, but our research is getting more attention, at least as measured by website traffic in the US (Alexa...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in Real Clear Politics today on our work on the concentration of murder and gun ownership in the US. The vast majority of murders in the United States occur in just a tiny percentage of counties. In fact, the country can be divided up into...
On Sunday, April 30th, 2017, Dr. John Lott gave a well-attended talk in Atlanta on his book, The War on Guns, though it also contains some new information from a report just issued by the CPRC on how concentrated murders are in the US.. Chris Kellett, a Minnesota...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Washington Times about how gun control advocates refuse to debate gun control: When you receive glowing media attention and have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, you don’t really have to debate. Michael Bloomberg just...
Fox News had a top of the front web page discussion on our new research on murders overwhelmingly taking place in just a tiny part of the US. Many other publications from the Washington Times, Yahoo Finance, One News Now, and others ran similar stories. Here is the...
Just a few weeks ago, Michael Bloomberg promised to spend $25 million to defeat Congressmen and Senator who support concealed handgun reciprocity and apparently even more on state legislative races ("turning much of its attention to state legislatures . . ."). Now...
Dr. John Lott debated Fordham University Law School Professor Deborah Denno on Turkish television about the death penalty in the US. (Thursday, April 27, 2017)
Dr. John Lott joined The Rod Arquette Show to discuss the how very concentrated murders are in the US, that over half the murders in the US take place in just 2% of the counties. (Wednesday, April 26, 2017, from 6:35 to 6:43 PM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Scott Sloan on the big 50,000-watt WLW about the legislation in the Pennsylvania legislature that would let teachers and staff with concealed handgun permits and special training carry on school property. It discussed the issues in Lott's...