President of Crime Prevention Research Center, John Lott, joins Steve Malzberg to discuss some of the gun control claims made in the wake of the California terror attack.
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CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: “Obama Strategy Focuses On Guns, Not Terrorism”
Here is John Lott's piece in Investor's Business Daily evaluating Obama's first two domestic proposals to protect Americans from terrorism. On Sunday night, President Obama offered Americans his strategy for protecting them from terrorism. No, he didn’t announce new...
CPRC talks to Reporting Texas about Gunshot Detection Equipment
From Reporting Texas: Though detection systems are present in more than 90 U.S. cities, including San Francisco and New York, not everyone is convinced of their worth. John Lott, president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, which researches gun use and crime,...
CPRC in the recent news from around the country: Yahoo Finance, Washington Times, NewsMax, and many other places
Washington Times, December 7, 2015 Many blame gun violence and terrorist acts on the availability of guns. It seems logical — no guns, no gun violence. The number of guns in the United States has been growing rapidly. Various estimates put the number of guns to well...
CPRC on the Laura Ingraham Show to discuss the laws in California and other states and France that have had mass public shootings
John Lott talked to Laura about the shooting in San Bernardino and what we could learn from the laws in states that have recent mass public shootings (Thursday, December 4, 2015 from 9:22 to 9:30 AM). Laura Ingraham’s show is heard by over 2 million people.
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) reads John Lott’s recent National Review article on background checks on C-SPAN
The piece that Congressman Gohmert is reading is available here.
CPRC talks to the Associated Press about the failure of gun control laws to stop mass public shootings
After each mass public shooting, President Obama and Hillary Clinton call for expanded background checks. John Lott talked to the Associated Press in an article entitled "California's tough gun laws didn't make a difference in recent attack." The article appeared in...
Bret Baier’s Special Report discusses the CPRC’s research on Mass Public Shootings
More detailed information on the numbers used by Bret Baier on Fox News are available here, here, and here. Peter Docey did make one mistake in discussing our research. We were not subtracting off terrorist attacks from the totals.
Liberty University, with 14,500 students, asks students and faculty to carry permitted concealed handguns on campus
Liberty University has 14,500 residential students and 2,500 full-time and part-time faculty. This past week the university's president, Jerry Falwell Jr., urged students and faculty during Friday’s convocation to carry concealed weapons on campus in the wake of...
CPRC on Coast to Coast AM talking about the San Bernardino Attack
John Lott talked to George Noory about the recent attack in California and the push by President Obama for so-called expanded background checks (Friday, December 5, 2015 from 1:08 to 1:12 AM). George Noory's show is listened to by over 2.75 million people.
John Stossel’s column takes on the claims that John Lott’s research has been “discredited”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, New Hampshire Union Leader, St. George (UT) Spectrum, Townhall.com, Reason.com, Elko (Ca) Daily Free Press, Human Events, and many others. This week, my TV show is on gun control. I interviewed activist Leah Barrett, who wants...
CPRC on CNN with Carol Costello discussing what can be done to stop mass public shootings
John Lott talked to Carol Costello about misleading claims in the gun control debate and what can be done stop these mass public shootings (Thursday, December 3, 2015 9:52 to 9:57 AM). The youtube of the interview here doesn't include the introduction where Costello...