(Click on figure to make picture bigger.) Bloomberg's groups claim that shootings at schools are ignored and don't get media attention. Well, of 44 claimed cases the groups point to since Newtown, 24 of them were covered by USA Today. Five others were covered in at...
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How has the number of people killed in non-gang, non-suicide shootings at K-12 schools changed over the last 20 years?
UPDATED INFORMATION is available here.. UPDATE: Problems with the Bloomberg claims on school shootings is available here. (Click on the figure to make it larger.) Using data from the National School Safety Center, Slate, and Michael Bloomberg shows a significant drop...
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM for 2 hours (Audio)
CPRC was on George Noory's radio show last night for the first two hours of the show (3.25 million weekly listeners). Among the topics: the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals case striking down California's concealed handgun law, the big push to scare Americans into not...
CPRC on the Dennis Miller Show
While most of the discussion here was on Obamacare, the last 1:52 of the interview was on the Crime Prevention Research Center. The audio of the interview is available here (1:17 to 1:28 EST PM, 02/13/2014).
CPRC at Fox News: “It may soon be easy to carry a permitted concealed handgun in California”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: California may soon join 42 other states in letting people carry concealed handguns once they meet certain objective criteria. Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state couldn’t ban both...
Gun Control Debate at the University Club of New York, Tuesday, February 11th, noon to 2 PM
On Tuesday, February 11th, CPRC's John Lott will debate Carl T. Bogus, Professor of Law, Roger Williams University and former board member for Handgun Control and the Brady Campaign. The debate on the topic of gun control will go from 12:45 to 2 PM at the University...
Gun control advocate caught carrying permitted concealed handgun at school and supporters make argument that concealed carry permit holders make places safer
Dwayne Ferguson has been an active, well-known public supporter of gun control efforts for many years. He helped pass New York's new gun control laws last year. But he was recently arrested for accidentally carrying his permitted concealed handgun on school property....
Fox News Poll: By 2-to-1 margin Americans believe in More Guns, Less Crime
(Click on figure to make it larger.) This result is from a Fox News poll given from January 15-17, 2013, and so it was done right after the Newtown attack. Presumably the results at other times would have been even more lopsided. Still the Fox News survey is possibly...
CPRC debates Paul Helmke at East Carolina University over conceal handguns on college campuses
A short video of the debate from News Channel 12 is available here: More on the debate is available from the East Carolina University school newspaper. Amazingly, the debate received news coverage at least as far away as Montana. From WSLS TV: East Carolina University...
CPRC at Fox News: “ABC News reports on guns mislead Americans”
John Lott's piece at Fox News started this way: Gun control advocates not only push new fees and taxes on guns to reduce ownership, but they also employ another tactic: scaring people into not owning guns. Last week, on January 31, ABC News saturated its news programs...
Fewer than 1 percent of state prison inmates obtained their guns at the time of offense from gun shows, costs of regulations exceed benefits
What is interesting is the remarkable consistency of the rate that criminals obtained their guns from gun shows (a copy of the earlier report is available here). One problem with using these surveys is that people think that if one were to actually stop all criminals...
CPRC on the Bill Martinez national radio show to discuss ABC News’ Special on Guns
The audio of John Lott's interview on the Bill Martinez's show that dealt with ABC News' Special is available here.