The interview with Dana Loesch is available here.
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Opinion piece at Fox News: “NFL hypocrisy — Bloomberg anti-gun ads ok but ad about ‘protection’ is banned?”
The piece by the Crime Prevention Research Center starts this way: New York City Mayor and gun control advocate Michael Bloomberg sure knows how to get his way. This week the NFL, after featuring anti-gun ads during the last two Super Bowls, it decided that an ad...
CPRC in the news about Obama’s push for Sandy Hook anniversary events
Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller has this: . . . But at least one prominent gun and crime researcher says he thinks that the OFA campaign is misleading. “Obviously background checks wouldn’t have stopped Newtown,” John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention...
Fusion TV debate on “Are Guns in Classrooms a Good Idea?”
Fusion TV is a joint venture of ABC and Univision, and it is aimed at young people and also Hispanics. This segment is only about a third of our interview. When John Lott was able to respond, he pointed out that Katherine Seymour fears about what might happen weren't...
Rep. Matt Gaetz, The Chair Of Florida “Stand Your Ground” Hearings, cites statistics from CPRC during debate
The Crime Prevention Research Center's recent testimony to the US Senate has had implications for the Stand Your Ground debate in Florida. Rep. Matt Gaetz began quoting from John Lott's testimony at about 3:31 into this video and continues until 4:31. Gaetz's entire...
Newest Fox New piece: New gun rules for Neighborhood Watch volunteers in Sanford, Fla. about race, politics not saving lives
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: When lives are on the line, what saves lives -- not politics – should guide policy. Gun control advocates used to warn about blood in the streets if we didn’t tighten gun laws, but as concealed handgun permits in...
Some notes on John Roman’s “Race, Justifiable Homicide, and Stand Your Ground Laws: Analysis of FBI Supplementary Homicide Report Data,” Urban Institute
A copy of Roman's report is available here. Apparently, the report was referenced extensively in last week's Senate testimony on Stand Your Ground laws. 1) If you were to do this study right, you would look at the change in justifiable homicides in each state...
Evaluating: “Racism, gun ownership and gun control: Biased attitudes in US whites may influence policy decisions”
Greg Gutfeld made use of the discussion below in his appearance on Fox News' "The Five" on Friday (transcript here). Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comJohn Lott's op-ed at Fox News summarizing part of the post below is available here. Original Post: Four...
Crime Prevention Research Center in the News regarding Senate hearing on Stand Your Ground laws
From the Jackson County Floridian: Witnesses, from left, Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School; David LaBahn, Association of Prosecuting Attorneys...
Chicago Tribune opinion piece for Tuesday’s Senate hearing: “In defense of stand your ground laws”
John Lott's piece at the Chicago Tribune coincides with the Senate hearing on Stand Your Ground laws tomorrow. The article starts this way: As Sen. Dick Durbin's (D-Ill.) Judiciary subcommittee hears testimony on "stand your ground" laws Tuesday, charges of racial...
Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Stand Your Ground Laws
Tomorrow at 10 AM the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights will hold a hearing on Stand Your Ground laws. A copy of my testimony is available here. From the Chicago Sun-Times: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) will chair a hearing...
Debate on CNN with the head of the Brady Campaign about gun sales online
"CNN asks two gun sales experts about social media site Instagram permitting firearm sales online."