People can have guns on their property within 1,000 feet of a school, but Gabriel Metcalf stepped onto the sidewalk in front of his school and got arrested. He didn’t realize the sidewalk was not classified as part of his property. The man is being held in jail.
Dr. John Lott talked to Mike Opelka on Philadelphia's giant 50,000-watt WPHT about Delaware's new restrictions on where people can carry permitted concealed handguns. For example, they are banning the carrying of concealed handguns within a 1,000 feet of a school,...
Dr. John Lott talked to Andrew Langer on the Michigan Talk Network about his piece at Townhall titled: "Biden's recent false claims about guns." Wednesday, August 16, 2023 from 8:45 to 9:00 AM.
News media bias shows up in many ways. One way biases arise is by reporters using answers from one question for another. That happened in this case for our Nikki Goeser. Nikki was largely responsible for the idea behind the Lifetime Order of Protection. The interview...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist on the lawsuit filed by Michael Bloomberg's Everytown. . The lessons from the Buffalo shooting are right in the killer’s manifesto, but gun-control groups like Everytown don’t care. . The Biden administration has already...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbTkCJUd4UA In 2021, an idea that Nikki Goeser had became law in Tennessee. Before that law, an order of protection only lasted for one year. Each year, the person who wanted to be protected had to go back to court with some new...
Dr. John Lott appeared on One America News Network’s Tipping Point to discuss D.C. approving an emergency public safety bill to address rising crime rates in the city. D.C.'s city council chairman says criminals can get away with literal murder in his district -...
Another concealed handgun permit holder stopped a carjacking in Chicago. A Chicago man who received probation in a carjacking case late last year got shot this month while trying to carjack a rideshare driver at gunpoint, prosecutors say. Darick Benson, 20, was...
https://youtu.be/TtPNjsIBKrk Dr. John Lott appeared on Del Dia a la Noche to discuss how to cut crime and improve security in Ecuador. He pointed out that not only the victims are affected, but also the whole community will...
https://youtu.be/e1AjLLy1EKA Dr. John Lott and Kerry Slone, CPRC's new Executive Director of Education, appeared on Radio Sucre 700 AM's Con Usted in Ecuador to discuss the country's recent problems with crimes and the critical role that guns played in self-defense....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FkZYKpuBOQ Tennessee Governor Bill Lee called for a special session for the legislature to consider gun control laws in response to the Covenant School shooting in Nashville in March 2023. The Crime Prevention Research Center's Nikki...
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Meyer on Medford, Oregon’s KMED-AM about our work on the defensive gun use cases that the FBI's Active Shooting reports has missed. Thursday, August 17, 2023.