The discussion focused on everything from Illinois' new concealed carry law to background checks (audio of the 12 minute interview is available here)
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CPRC participates in CNN discussion on Detroit Police Chief’s statement that letting more people carry concealed handguns will deter more crime
CPRC's John Lott was on Erin Burnett's CNN show on Friday night. The video of the show is available in two parts (here and here). CNN gave this description of the show: A surprising statement on gun violence from the police chief of one of America's most violent...
Evaluating the Evidence in the Federal district court’s New York gun law decision
The CPRC presents an analysis of the federal district court's decision at National Review Online. The beginning of the analysis starts this way: New York’s new gun-control law, the so-called SAFE Act, largely survived its first federal-court challenge on this past...
CPRC on the Radio and TV discussing everything from plastic gun bans, 3D printers, and the Newtown Anniversary
Links provided for some of the shows. Friday 12/6: Riley & Scot 10:09 a.m. ET. WROK-AM Rockford, Illinois Friday 12/6 Dana Show at 1:35 p.m. ET. KFTK 97.1 FM Talk St Louis, MO Friday 12/6: Andy Caldwell Show 6:30 – 7 p.m. ET. Ventura to San Luis Obispo, California...
CPRC on the Geraldo Rivera Radio Show debating gun control with Alan Dershowitz
John Lott debated Alan Dershowitz on the Geraldo Rivera Radio Show on Tuesday, December 17th at 10:05 AM. The audio of the gun part of the debate is available here.
CPRC on The Jim Bohannon Show talking gun control a year after Newtown massacre
CPRC's John Lott was on The Jim Bohannon Show for an hour from 10 to 11 PM on Monday, December 16th. The audio is available here.
CPRC on Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk
John Lott did this interview on Sunday, December 15th from 4:35 to 4:50. The audio of the interview is available here.
Audio of CPRC’s appearance on the Lars Larson Radio Show to discuss Newtown anniversary
Lars Larson describes the discussion this way. We’re approaching to the one-year anniversaries of the murders at Sandy Hook and Clackamas Town Center. Gun control has been one of the hottest topics of this year, but where do we stand on it as we approach these...
Newest Fox News piece: “1 year after Newtown, support for stricter gun control has disappeared”
A New op-ed piece by John Lott starts this way: President Obama has pushed hard for gun control this year and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent millions of dollars on ads, but the administration's promise to coordinate "a November lobbying effort and plan...
Problems with Public Health Research: Michael Siegel, Craig Ross, and Charles King, “The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981-2010,” American Journal of Public Health
In a recent issue of the American Journal of Public Health, three researchers examine the relationship between "gun ownership" as measured by the percent of suicides committed with firearms. There is a significant literature indicating that this measure actually is...
Problems with Public Health Research: Garen J. Wintemute, “Findings from the Firearms Licensee Survey,” Journal of Urban Health
The quality of research published in medical journals on public health is abysmal. The CPRC will occasionally publish comments on this research. In this case, the full title of the paper by Garen J. Wintemute is "Support for a Comprehensive Background Check...
Polls consistently show that over the last couple decades more people are opposing more gun control
The most recent CNN poll shows more people ever recorded opposing more gun control (UPDATED CNN poll). From CNN, 52% of Americans oppose stricter gun control. The previous high opposition was 55% in September 2014. The average opposition since 1989 was 40%, so the...