Transcript from Nancy Grace's show on CNN's Headline News last night: GRACE: In the last hours, we learn the homeowner, this 65-year-old man, Byron Davis Smith, actually calls the teens vermin. All of this is caught on tape. Smith has a home security system. And not...
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CPRC on Fox News discussing Georgia getting rid of some gun free zones, other related media
Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a>Fox News on April 24th from 3:33 to 3:37 PM. The Georgia State House passed the bill 112 to 58 and the State...
Massive errors in the Violence Policy Center’s “Concealed Carry Killers”
The Violence Policy Center regularly puts out the claim that concealed handgun permit holders are a danger to themselves and others. Right now they claim that concealed handgun permits have been responsible for 636 deaths from the entire United States over almost...
5 Year Recidivism of Prisoners released hits 77 percent
This new study from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that the previous measures of recidivism that looked at just the first two years after release missed a lot of the problem with former prisoners being rearrested. The 5 year rate for All offenses: 77% Violent...
CPRC at Fox News: “What the press is missing in Bloomberg’s anti-gun push”
The newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Gun control has largely been a top down effort. Michael Bloomberg’s latest announcement that he will spend another $50 million to push gun control – 2.5 times the amount spent by the NRA annually on political activities –...
CPRC Board member Arthur Berg’s piece in the Wall Street Journal: “How to Stop a Would-Be Killer at a Military Base”
CPRC Board member Arthur Berg had a piece in the Wall Street Journal last week that started this way: Barring soldiers from carrying concealed weapons at Fort Hood Army base in Texas demeans the soldiers and ignores reality. It also gets people killed. In 2009 and...
Bloomberg’s $50 million push for gun control this year, and why that is only the tip of problem
Bloomberg's promise to spend $50 million this year on gun control efforts is just the tip of the iceberg. As the NY Times reports it, this is 2.5 times the $20 million that the NRA has been spending a year on political activities. But that $50 million is really just a...
CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: “Michael Bloomberg, Gun Control And Fabricated Numbers”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: No doubt, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg passionately believes in gun control. To his credit, he puts his own money — tens of millions of dollars, and possibly much more — into...
CPRC in the Chicago Tribune on gun-free zones at military bases
John Lott's op-ed on gun-free zones at military bases at the Chicago Tribune starts this way: What stops a mass public shooting is a person with a gun. Frequently it isn't even necessary to fire the gun. But the length of time between when an attack starts and when...
A note on mass victim knife attacks around the world: a single, very small 16 year old was able to wound at least 24 people with a knife in just 5 minutes
John Lott had a discussion about the Pennsylvania attack on Coast to Coast AM (April 10, 2014 from 1:08 to 1:11 AM). Franklin Regional High School near Pittsburgh was the horrific scene on Wednesday with "at least 24" injured, including 5 critically wounded. The...
CPRC in the news at Fox News: “After Fort Hood: Should soldiers be allowed to bear arms on base?”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: In debates on gun control, gun opponents usually speculate about what might go wrong. Unfortunately, the current debate over arming soldiers on military bases is no different. Except for the military police,...
Media Matters, TPM, and others mislead over CPRC’s interview on MSNBC: Gun-free zones on military bases
It is quite flattering that any time Media Matters and TPM spent so much real estate going after me. Media Matters' post was at the top of their front page from late morning on Friday until at least midnight (my last check). [UPDATE: As of 6:30 AM on Monday, April...