Dr. Lott talked with host Steve Gruber about the issues with the no fly list and how many innocent people are placed on this list. Denying people their civil rights based on their name being on this list is simply wrong. Dr. Lott also points out that people...
Dr. Lott's newest Fox News piece on FBI Director James Comey's decision not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton starts this way: Hillary Clinton likely dodged criminal charges Tuesday for a simple reason: the bar for bringing criminal charges against...
From the Voice of America: Thanks to Ohio state laws, anyone within the 8-square-kilometer "event zone" in downtown Cleveland will be able to openly carry legally owned firearms. With a valid permit, they can even carry a concealed weapon. And city officials cannot...
Crime Prevention Research Center's John Lott was on the One America News Network to discuss gun ownership and terrorism (Wednesday, June 29, 2016)
CPRC's Dr. John Lott was on Al Jazeera International on Friday, June 17th, 2016 to discuss changing background checks, banning assault weapons, and gun-free zones.
CPRC President John Lott, CPRC Academic Board Member Carl Moody and CPRC Research Direction John Whitley had a letter in the June 16th issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology to point out errors in a recent paper in the journal by J. Santaella-Tenorio, A. Cerdá...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at National Review that was the top piece on their page on Wednesday. The piece, which covers the lessons that we have learned after Orlando, starts this way: In a new Gallup poll released, a nearly two-to-one margin of Americans (64 to...
Dr. John Lott joined Glenn Beck on his TV program to discuss the differences between machine guns and the semi-automatic AR-15. (June 23, 2016 at 5:20 to 5:25 PM) Beck: John, I appreciate your time and thanks for all your hard work over the years. You are really the...
Cleveland Channel 5 ABC, June 27, 2016 Rodecker pointed to the latest Crime Prevention Research Center report that shows that the number of permits issued in the U.S. has grown more than 15% in the past year. . . . Ammoland, June 27, 2016 Details are emerging about...
Picture from Sumter County Sheriff’s Office After the massacre in Orlando, Florida, there is the question of how to stop mass public shootings. Unlike Florida, South Carolina allows people to carry permitted concealed handguns in Nightclubs. If the attack wasn't...
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Regulation (Summer 2016) has published some new research by John Lott and Gary Mauser on "Do economists and criminologists differ in their views of firearms’ effects on crime and suicide?" A copy of the article is available here.