Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on his national Armed American Radio show about Justice Thomas' illness and what would happen if he were to leave the Supreme Court. They also talked about what we can expect in the New York concealed carry case. (Sunday, March 20,...
With Chicago's violent crime rate surging and Lightfoot cutting the police budget in 2020, she simultaneously set up an additional security force of police officers to provide her and her family protection. In 2020, Unit 544 for the police department was created....
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on his national radio show the CRPC's research on Constitutional Carry (here and here). They discussed the movement among the states pushing Constitutional Carry. (Wednesday, March 9, 2022)
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. This piece discusses his forthcoming journal piece in Public Choice that measures vote fraud in the November 2020 presidential election. By a margin of 52% to 40%, voters believe that “cheating affected the...
Dr. John Lott talked to Aaron Flint on the Montana Talks Network about Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the United States Supreme Court. (Friday, March 25, 2022, from 8:40 to 8:50 AM)
The CPRC has some new research published in Academia Letters. The research finds statistically significant reductions in murder from the adoption of Constitutional Carry laws (see Table 3). ConclusionLate adopting states issue fewer permits than early adopting states,...
70,789 people represent about 5.73% of the 1.236 million adults in Philadelphia. This is a notable increase in applications for Pennsylvania, which already ranks 5th in the percentage of adults with permits (1.486 million, August 2, 2021). From 2017 through 2020, the...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the adoption of Constitutional Carry laws, now in 24 states with a couple more likely to follow shortly. (Friday, March 25, 2022, from 8:35 to 8:44 AM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WkqLDCwtnI This episode starts off with a bombing of a gun-control organization in an attack by those who support the right to self-defense. A daughter of the gun control group had been shot to death, and the mother then dedicated her...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Gun-control advocates keep making the same predictions of doom and bloodshed from law-abiding citizens having guns for protection. They warn us of pending disaster if Georgia becomes the 23rd...
McLaughlin & Associates Higher crime rates and the war in Ukraine are both working to reduce support for more gun control.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. If a criminal figures out a more effective way to break into people’s homes to steal more, should he receive a lighter sentence per dollar of what he steals? Biden’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown...