Kerry Slone, The CPRC's Director of Education, has an op-ed at Townhall. Apparently in New Mexico, it is acceptable to break gun control laws if the actions of the organizations benefit Governor Lujan’s plan to disarm New Mexicans. Recently, an organization called New...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGgI2E5JUw At least 14 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a mass shooting Thursday afternoon at a university in central Prague, Czech authorities said. The shooter was a student at the school, Charles University,...
Illinois has its new registration rules for grandfathered “assault weapons” (e.g., semi-automatic rifles) and large capacity magazines. Not everyone who has a FOID card may own a gun, though a large majority of those owning guns likely own standard magazines, which...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikvOgMwwt4Y Dr. John Lott talked to Rick Green in the Tavern about a range of topics from mass public shootings to media bias. December 7, 2023
Dr. John Lott talked to Alabama’s JT on WERC-AM & FM about the our new annual report on concealed handgun permits. (Tuesday, December 12, 2023)
UPDATE April 4, 2024: The original post had preliminary data on the murder rate and it turned out that the murder rate had not fallen quite as much for 2023 and the NBC article and others were claiming. The figure at the top of the page includes the final FBI number...
And so, the usual cycle plays out: armed civilian stops active shooter, media steps in (if it even reports it at all) to remind us that the "good guy with a gun" is a myth. Is it, though? CNN cites ALERRT, which provides the FBI with its data. According to these...
CPRC Fellow Amanda Collins talked to Alan Stock on Las Vegas’ giant KXNT-AM about her op-ed piece at the Townhall titled “My Take On the Horrific UNLV Shooting” about the recent University of Nevada shooting in a gun-free zone. (Monday, December 11, 2023)
Bloomberg's Everytown joins Shannon Watts and Moms Demand in blocking the Crime Prevention Research Center on Twitter. Among that Everytown found too troublesome are shown here.
According to PEW Research 46% of American voters in November 2020 voted by absentee or mail-in ballots (58% of Democrats and 32% of Republicans). A new Rasmussen survey has 30% of American voters claiming they voted by absentee or mail-in ballots in that election (36%...
Amanda Collins Johnson, a fellow at the Crime Prevention Research Center, has her first op-ed piece at Townhall. Amanda's new book is titled: “Beyond Survival: Reclaiming My Life After I Survived Rape.” As I heard the news about a mass shooting at the University of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giMx7vf7mY Dr. John Lott talked to former US Navy SEAL Jeff L. Gonzales is a nationally recognized weapons and tactics instructor with over thirty years of real-world experience. On this weeks episode of the BPW podcast; we have one of...