The CPRC provided a little bit of balance in an article on the release of a new gun tracing report by the New York Attorney General. . . . But John R. Lott Jr., the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center in Pennsylvania, disagreed. “That’s like finding out...
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Evaluating Bloomberg’s School of Public Health’s “Firearms on College Campuses”
This paper by the Bloomberg School of Public Health (copy available here, henceforth referred to as the Bloomberg Report) doesn’t even try to address the existing arguments that have been made on campus carry. Below is a very rough, very quick response to their...
Debate at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln this coming Thursday
The American Conservative discussing the “The War on Guns” in his essay “Does Gun Control Work?”
Robert Verbruggen, an editor at The American Conservative, writes: . . . Today I’ll look at the issue, with a special focus on a new analysis the economist John R. Lott presents in his book The War on Guns. . . . Enter Lott. In his book, he does spend some time going...
CPRC at Fox News: “If Clinton wins, America, kiss your right to self-defense good-bye”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News: In terms of individual rights, there has probably never been so much at stake in a presidential election. If Hillary Clinton wins, Americans will soon lose the right of self-defense in their own homes. Wednesday night in Las...
CPRC at the Heritage Foundation: “The Right to Arms and the War on Guns”
Dr. John Lott joined CPRC Board of Director Sheriff David Clarke and George Mason University Law Professor Nelson Lund on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 to discuss "The Right to Arms and the War on Guns." Here is Dr. Lott's talk. For the entire conference see below....
CPRC corrects CDC coding error, reducing the official number of accidental gun deaths in the US by 100
Rather than the number of accidental gun deaths in Tennessee increasing from 19 in 2013 to 105 in 2014, the actual number had actually declined to 5. The total number of accidental deaths last year is thus 486, not 586. While the CDC has acknowledged their mistake,...
CPRC on Bill Martinez to discuss Hillary Clinton’s proposals on gun control
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Martinez about Hillary Clinton's proposals on gun control as well as Citizens United. (October 12, 2016, 10:06 to 10:30 AM)
CPRC on Financial Myth Busting on the current debate over gun laws
Dr. John Lott talked to Dawn Bennett on her national radio show to discuss the current debate over gun control and his new book, The War on Guns. (Sunday, October 2, 2016 from 11:05 to 11:20 AM)
CPRC in Maine’s Sun Journal on Michael Bloomberg’s gun control initiative on their ballot
Dr. John Lott has a oped in Maine's Sun Journal about the Michael Bloomberg gun control initiative being pushed there. Let’s say a stalker is threatening a female friend of yours. She asks you if she can borrow your handgun. She is trained and has no criminal record....
Letter sent to New York Times regarding New Center for American Progress Claiming that Gun Laws Reduce Crime
This letter wasn't published, but it was sent to the New York Times after their article on a new Center for American Progress Claiming that gun laws reduce crime. Dear Letters Editor: The Times incorrectly describes a study as showing that gun control laws reduce...
CPRC in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Bloomberg’s Initiative
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Bloomberg's initiative requiring background checks on the private transfer of guns. Let’s say a stalker is threatening a female friend of yours. She asks you if she can borrow your handgun. She is...