CPRC's Dr. John Lott speaks with show host Greg Garrison about the benefits of concealed carry and the dangers of gun-free zones Oct 27, 2015 (11:05 to 11:30 AM). They discussed a restaurant in Indianapolis that had suffered four recent robberies and is now offering...
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CPRC on The Steve Gruber Show (Michigan Talk Network): PEW Research shows firearm homicides plunged as firearm ownership increases
CPRC President Dr. John Lott talks with The Steve Gruber Show. PEW Research has shown that firearm homicides have declined significantly since the 90's. Dr. Lott explains that gun ownership is on the rise. Gun sales in 2014 doubled since 2006. The number of...
CPRC in the News: Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, RealClearPolitics, Washington Times, TPM, Breitbart.com, and other media across the country
Dallas Morning News, Friday, October 23, 2015 The problem the Legislature was trying to fix was best identified by John Lott, economist and founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, when he pointed out that, “There are only two mass public shootings since at...
UPDATED: Allowing teachers and staff to carry guns in schools doesn’t increase school insurance premiums, info from seven states
Utah Curt Oda, past president of the Utah Independent Insurance Agents Association of Utah. Response received via text -- All public schools and most all public charter schools are covered by state risk management. They also come under government immunity statutes and...
CPRC on The Dana TV Show: Discussing the New York Times use of the Violence Policy Center Data to Attack Concealed Carry and Everytown’s Attacks on Lott
John Lott talked to Dana Loesch on her TV show about the New York Times reliance on the Violence Policy Center's discussion about concealed handgun permit holders (6:15 to 6:22 PM, October 26, 2015). The whole segment is available here.
New Concealed Handgun Permit Holder defends himself from three robbers, one of whom was armed
Fox TV Channel 2 in Detroit: . . . Tremain, who doesn't want to be identified because his family fears retaliation, says his brother had just finished work and was waiting for the bus at Schaefer and West Outer Drive on the west side when three teens confronted him....
How Bloomberg’s Everytown discusses gun-free zones: unable to debate the facts, they engage in false personal attacks
Gun-free zones are a serious problem. Shannon Watts, the head of Michael Bloomberg's Moms Demand Action, claimed that research that John Lott had done was "wrong and misleading" and that Lott was "debunked." When Lott responded...
Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham again cherry picks research and misstates what those studies show
The Washington Post's Christopher Ingraham has another new post on gun control (earlier ones here), where he is claiming that most people are wrong to believe that permitted concealed handguns make them safer. In this case, Ingraham is responding to a new Gallup poll...
CPRC on Southern California’s Public Radio station KPCC: Is the decline of gun ownership inevitable?
John Lott debated Adam Winkler on Larry Mantle's show about Winkler's claim that demographic changes imply that the decline in support for gun ownership is "inevitable" (Click here Tuesday, October 20, 2015 from 2:15 to 2:45 PM EDT).
CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: “‘Demographic Death’ Of NRA Just Another Big Media Myth”
John Lott's latest piece at Investor's Business Daily responds to a recent op-ed by Adam Winkler in the Washington Post. Another version of this appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review and is provided below. Lott's piece is as follows: Gun ownership is greatest...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: “Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Gun Laws In Australia And The UK”
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Democrats keeping telling people that they don’t want to confiscate their guns, but at the same time they are praising the gun control laws in countries that have confiscated people’s guns. But Hillary...
Powerful ad illustrating that it is poor blacks, particularly women, who need guns the most for protection
John Lott's research shows that there are two groups of people who benefit the most from owning guns: 1) poor blacks who live in high crime urban areas (people who are most likely to be victims of violent crime) and 2) people who are relatively weaker physically...