CPRC's president, John Lott, has been on Piers Morgan's CNN show many times. With Morgan's announcement yesterday that his show was being cancelled, John Lott wrote a piece for the National Review Online. The piece starts this way: Sunday’s announcement that Piers...
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An exchange in Scientific American over the academic literature on concealed carry and background checks
This is the second exchange in the letters section of Scientific American that John Lott has had with Michael Shermer in the last year. Of course, the single paper that Shermer cites was mentioned and discussed at length in the review of the literature that Lott...
Obama’s impact on US gun sales, a warning about using NICS checks to measure gun sales
Gun sales have exploded under the Obama administration even while crime rates have fallen. Jason Riley has recently made that point in the Wall Street Journal. NICS checks for guns are a rather imperfect measure of gun sales. People can buy multiple guns with one...
CPRC at Fox News: Media cherry picks Missouri gun data to make misleading case for more control
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News discusses the forthcoming study in the Journal of Urban Health that has been getting a lot of media attention. His piece starts this way: With headlines claiming “Study Shows Gun Control Works,” media outlets such as CBS, MSNBC,...
CPRC on Coast to Coast AM to discuss US Senator Markey’s bill mandating people can only own so-called “Smart guns”
The news interview with George Noory on the new proposed law by Senator Markey is available here (Coast-to-Coast AM, Friday, February 21, 1:06 to 1:09 AM EST). For those interested, information on the unreliability of these so-called "smart guns" is available here.
CPRC on KMOX to discuss new studies funded by Bloomberg on school shootings and Missouri
John Lott appeared on the Mark Reardon Show on KMOX to discuss new research funded by Michael Bloomberg on schooling shootings and Missouri ending its universal background check rules for handguns. The audio of the interview is available here (KMOX, Thursday, February...
CPRC on the Voice of Russia on why so-called “Smart guns” aren’t so smart
With the price of so-called "smart guns" running at $1,399 plus $399 for the watch that is required to make it work, this represents a dramatic increase in the price of guns and dramatically reduce gun ownership if mandated. The bigger problem is the question of...
CPRC on the Steve Malzberg Show to discuss the media bias on guns
A copy of the interview and the audio is also available here. The interview covered the mistakes in the Bloomberg report on school shootings and the concealed handgun decision in the 9th Circuit.
Interview on Michigan Talk Radio about the 9th Circuit decision on Concealed Carry
The audio of the interview with John Lott is available here (8:07 to 8:14 EST AM, Wednesday, February 19, 2014). • Write up on the court's decision is available here.
Media Bias on guns: Interview on Jim Bohannon Show discussing Bloomberg, ABC News, and the media
The interview during the first hour of the Jim Bohannon Radio Show is available here (10:05 to 11:00 PM EST, Tuesday, February 18, 2014). For the original pieces that generated the discussion see here: • Errors with Bloomberg on school gun shooting stats • Errors with...
What does Missouri show about the benefits from universal background checks?: Nothing really. Notes on the forthcoming Journal of Urban Health study by the Bloomberg School of Public Health
There has been some attention given yesterday and today about a study coming out from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University: Repeal of Missouri's background check law associated with increase in state's murders Missouri's 2007 repeal of its...
CPRC at Fox News: “Bloomberg’s latest stats on school gun violence ignore reality”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Are schools and colleges dangerous places, with lots of gun violence? Some groups paint a picture of these places being particularly unsafe. Supposedly both murders and firearm suicides are very common at...