Thomas McCary (Hamilton County sheriff's office) Fox 19 in Cincinnati, Ohio originally reported this story from Winton Hills, Ohio. Fox News has this: [Thomas] McCary [62-years-old] was arguing with a woman around 8 p.m. Sunday night and, when the woman’s brother,...
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Washington Post’s misleading article on “mass shootings” — falsely claiming “204 mass shootings” when virtually none of these cases qualify for the normal definition of “mass,” UPDATED: Response from Washington Post
Click on screenshots to enlarge. Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post has another article on guns. Unfortunately, Ingraham explicitly ignores the FBI's definition on mass shootings. The cases he ends up with involve very few murders and are heavily biased to...
CPRC on the Laura Ingraham Show: The Danger of Gun-free Zones
John Lott talked to Laura Ingraham about the dangers of gun-free zones for the military and other places (Friday, July 24, 2015 from 10:07 to 10:16 AM).
CPRC has two of the top four for most downloaded studies dealing with “PSN: Security & Safety” on the Social Science Research Network
Click on Screen shot to enlarge it. Just as the CPRC's research on crime has been having an impact and widely downloaded. Now our research is having an impact in another area ("Security and Safety"). As people download our research and they move up in rank, the more...
International Crime Comparisons: US relatively safe in terms of violent crime
One of the big problems with comparing crime rates across countries is that there are big differences in what constitutes a crime and even whether people report crimes to police. If people don't think that the police in a country will be able to solve the crime, it...
Lafayette, Louisiana Movie Theater Shooting was yet another gun-free zone, other movie theaters in area didn’t have that policy
The movie theater shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana occurred in yet another place that banned permitted concealed handguns. The shooting occurred at the Grand Theater. It's "conduct policy" openly bans the carrying of guns, just like where the Aurora, Colorado movie...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: “For more Americans, owning a gun = safety”
This piece by John Lott has been carried in some newspapers across the US: Newsday (Long Island and NYC, NY), Charlotte Observer (NC), Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN); Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI), Omaha World Herald (NE), Fresno Bee (CA), Providence Journal (RI),...
CPRC in other radio interviews on dangers of gun-free zones
John Lott talked to the Michigan Talk Network on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 from 6:45 to 6:52 AM. John Lott spoke to the Christian radio network "The World" on Wednesday, July 22.
CPRC at Fox News: “Older people need guns, too”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Have you ever thought of letting someone else manage your finances? If President Obama has his way, Social Security recipients who have trouble managing their finances will be banned from buying a gun. If Social...
CPRC discussing Gun-free zones for the military: Lars Larson Show, Larry Elder Show, and others
CPRC Fellow Jack McCauley debated Ari Freilich, a staff attorney with the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, on Southern California's public radio station KPCC's Air Talk to discuss the ban on guns for military personnel. (Monday, July 20th, 2015 from 2:20 to 2:40...
CPRC on the Michigan Talk Radio Network
CPRC's John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on a variety of issues over the last several weeks Tuesday, June 30th: Discussing what implications the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage ruling might have for gun ownership Wednesday, July 8th: City of Chicago suit against gun...
Governors in six states quickly order National Guardsmen to be armed, but even these soldiers will be disarmed on federal property
Governors in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indiana moved quickly over the weekend to allow their national guard troops being able to protect themselves. Unfortunately, however, these national guard troops will still be disarmed on federal owned or...