With all the discussions about mental illness, one has to understand how much care and planning these killers engage in. Here is something from Elliot Rodger's manifesto that no one seems to understand the importance of: "The first thing I had to consider was the...
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Typical misinformation put out by Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action: The claim that US accounts for “84% of female firearm homicides in 25 countries are in US”
Given the Santa Barbara killers' hatred of women (though 4 of the 6 people killed were men), it is understandable that the topic of violence against women would be discussed. Not too surprisingly, despite the fact that half of those killed were killed by being...
6 killed, seven wounded in Mass Public Shooting in Santa Barbara, a giant gun-free zone
UPDATE: As usual, the media news stories got fundamental facts wrong here. Of particular interest, half the people killed here were stabbed to death. Also, you won't hear this in the news, the magazines that the killer used were also apparently limited to holding no...
CPRC on Washington DC’s WMAL: Chipotle asked its customers to stop bringing guns to its restaurants, but has anything actually changed?
John Lott is interviewed by Larry O'Connor about Chipotle's decision to no longer "welcome" guns in its stores (WMAL from 5:37 to 5:45 PM on May 20th audio available here).
CPRC in the News: “A Reply to The Atlantic on the Death Penalty”
John Lott's newest piece at National Review Online's The Corner replying to a piece by Andrew Cohen at the Atlantic starts this way: Death-penalty opponents are engaging in a lot of hyperbole. As an example, in the Atlantic this past Thursday, Andrew Cohen went after...
What does the research on the death penalty actually show?
The 2012 National Research Council report on "Deterrence and the Death Penalty" has a table showing only 10 panel studies on the death penalty (those shown above in plain type). No explanation is provided for why these studies are excluded. I have placed one of my...
So what caused crime rates to go up in 2012 in Chicago?: An extended discussion on the Dennis Miller Radio Show
The main event: Dennis was nice enough to have both the police officer and John Lott to discuss the issue of Chicago's murder rates more fully on Friday, May 16th from 12:33 to 1:00 PM, audio here. The second half the interview was on the general issue of why more...
What percent of federal and state prisoners are there for drug offenses?
This data is available here (file fjs10f18.cvs). The Federal prison population was about 17 percent of the state prison population in 2011 (Appendix Table 1). In state prisons was a much smaller percent of the population there for drug offenses (about 17 percent in...
CPRC: “Another Round in the Death-Penalty Debate,” Correcting mistakes in the Washington Post
On Sunday in the Washington Post, Radley Balko attacked a recent piece that CPRC's John Lott had on the death penalty. John Lott's piece that responds to Balko starts this way: The death-penalty debate goes on. After a piece that I wrote about the debate last week,...
CPRC in the News
Breitbart.com's Kristin Tate has this article here: "INTERVIEW: ECONOMIST JOHN LOTT LAUNCHES INITIATIVE TO FACILITATE TRUTHFUL REPORTING ABOUT GUNS" Clayton Cramer has a related article here: "Crime Prevention Research Center's Fundraising Efforts"
CPRC on the Dennis Miller and Bill Martinez Radio Shows
Dennis Miller Radio Show (Wednesday, May 7th, 2:06 to 2:30 PM) -- Great show largely on the problems with gun-free zones. Dennis - "I tell you that no matter what side of the gun issue you are in this country you are on you need to read the book More Guns, Less Crime...
CPRC at National Review: “The Shaky Case against the Death Penalty”
How far will death penalty opponents go to advance their cause? Our newest piece at National Review Online starts this way: After the recent mishandled execution in Oklahoma, in which the murderer ended up dying from a heart attack, death-penalty opponents pounced....