From an article at Fox News: In 2010, Iowa's numbers were just shy of 40,000, but according to data from the Iowa Department of Public Safety, last year the number crested 220,000. In 2011 alone, the number of permits issued in the state more than doubled. Nationally,...
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CPRC in the New York Daily News: Rates that police kill black and white teenagers
From the New York Daily News: Black male teenagers are killed by police 2.3 times as often as whites, John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, found. . . . While the 2.3 times number is much more accurate than the claims put forward by Slate...
CPRC at Fox News: “Terrorists can strike any time, anywhere: Self defense saves lives”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Terrorists can strike anywhere and at any time, giving them a huge strategic advantage.Unfortunately, too many politicians around the world are refusing to admit this. After the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris...
Do “more children die of bathtub drownings than of accidental shootings”? Yes.
Leonard Pitts, Jr. starts off his national newspaper column this way: Tucker Carlson said on Fox that more children die of bathtub drownings than of accidental shootings. They don't. Yet, Mr. Pitts is the one who is wrong. According to the U.S. Consumer Product...
New Hope City (MN) Council Member John Elder responds to attack on council by drawing gun
When shots rang out in the New Hope City Council (Minnesota), Council Member John Elder, a former police officer, drew his permitted concealed handgun to protect those who were at the meeting. An armed attacker shot at a group of uniformed police officers, wounding...
CPRC on the Michigan Talk Network discussing why people are buying guns and people’s changing views on guns and gun control
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on Thursday, January 22, 2014 from 8:35 to 8:41 AM.
CPRC on the Lars Larson Show to discuss the polls on gun control and media bias
John Lott was interviewed by Lars Larson on Thursday, January 22nd, 2014 from 6:05 to 6:15 PM EST. Lott was also interviewed by Mike Gallagher earlier that day about terrorist from 10:35 to 10:40 AM EST.
CPRC on the Dana Loesch Radio Show to discuss new background check proposals and defensive gun uses
John Lott appeared on Dana's national radio show twice yesterday (Thursday, January 22nd, 2014 at 2:23 to 2:30 PM and 3:05 to 3:16 PM). The first segment discusses recent statements by media figures as well as a claim in Politico that defensive gun uses are a myth....
The impact of the CPRC: Our research being used in debates over gun control
North Dakota's House Judiciary Committee held a hearing this week on bill that "would allow elected officials with a valid concealed carry permit to carry a firearm in public buildings." From the Bismarck Tribune (North Dakota) discussing the debate over the bill: . ....
CPRC on Canada’s Sun News Network: “Shoot an intruder in Idaho & the intruder goes to jail. In Canada the shooter might.”
CPRC's John Lott discussed the Michael Woodard defensive gun use case in Canada with Brian Lilley. The Idaho case that Brian mentions is available here.
Counties around Portland, Oregon experience explosive 41% or more growth in concealed handgun permits from 2011 to 2014
Portland's GoLocalPDX has a lead news story on the growth of concealed carry permits in the Portland area. Not enough information is presented in the article to determine the permit growth rate for all three counties, but Multnomah and Washington counties had a 41...
CPRC in the New York Times: Are people carrying permitted concealed handguns into airports really significant?
The Sunday New York Times piece by Kate Murphy has this: . . . The Crime Prevention Research Center used public records to count 12 million Americans with concealed-carry permits. It’s probably a low estimate as numbers are not available for all states that issue...