The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to vacate lower court rulings in several gun rights cases and remand them back to lower courts for review “in light of” last week’s landmark 6-3 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen. Among these cases...
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Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin mention Crime Prevention Research Center research that shows that the US is not unique in terms of mass public shootings on their radio shows
Ben Shapiro read from a piece that Dr. John Lott had in Newsweek titled "Democrats’ Focus On ‘Gun Control’ Won’t Solve Any of Our Problems." Since 1998, there have been a total of nine attacks similar to the Robb Elementary School shooting. Nine is nine too many. But...
On The Vicki McKenna Show: Discussing the Supreme Court ruling on New York’s gun law
Dr. John Lott joined Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin to discuss the Supreme Court's ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen and the Senate's new gun control bill. (Thursday, June 23, 2022) Vicki’s show...
New York Gun Permitting Would Check Social Media: Using people’s speech to determine whether they should be able to have a gun for protection?
New York would require people applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officials could verify their ‘character and conduct’ under a bill being considered Friday by the state Legislature. The provision was part of a proposed...
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight Uses Our Wall Street Journal Op-ed on Brazil’s drop in crime as the basis for Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JpKG8PODdg4 Tucker Carlson interviews Eduardo Bolsonaro, adviser to his father, President Jair Bolsonaro, about Brazil's gun policies on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' The numbers and discussion in the interview are clearly...
Crime Prevention Research Center’s research mentioned on Fox’s The Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DX7Lc_Tysg Judge Jeanine Pirro mentioned the Crime Prevention Research Center's research once directly and implicitly relied on the CPRC's research at other times (see at 1:24 into her discussion). The data on law-abiding permit...
On One America News: Supreme Court ruling in N.Y. gun case a clear victory for 2A rights
https://rumble.com/embed/v17uzov/?pub=vzmga Dr. John Lott discusses how the Supreme Court's ruling in New York's concealed carry case as a big win for people to be able to protect themselves and their families. One America's John Hines has more from Washington.
Fox News extensively quotes CPRC: States with higher rate of gun ownership do not correlate with more gun murders, data show
Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm is on the CPRC's board of academic advisors and Dr. John Lott is the president. Fox did shorten some of Lott's quote where he said that he would look at many different places over time and compare the changes in crime rates in those places...
On Al Jazeera: Discussing the latest shooting at Texas elementary school
https://youtu.be/mwLxnW1xCP8 Dr. John Lott talked to Al Jazeera about the recent Texas elementary school shooting. (Wednesday, May 25, 2022)
On Lock N Load: Discussing Uvalde School Shooting
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Frady about Uvalde, Texas School Shooting. See also Dr. Lott's new pieces at The Federalist ("Data Shows White Supremacists Are Not The Most Likely Mass Murderers") and Real Clear Politics ("When Misinformation Drives Bad Policy")....
Comments on the latest Donohue paper: “More Guns, More Unintended Consequences”
Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott have written up some comments on the latest Donohue et al. paper on concealed carry. For some perspective, you can see the academic literature on the issue here and the Amicus brief that we filed with a literature survey here....
At Newsweek: Democrats’ Fearmongering About SCOTUS Gun Rights Decision Is Baseless
The Democrats and the news media are making predictions of disaster for the recent Supreme Court decision on guns. Their fears are completely misplaced. "Lives are on the line," President Joe Biden warned after the Supreme Court held last week,...











