Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on both his Northwest and National radio shows to discuss the CPRC's new report on the large increase in concealed handgun permits. (Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 4:35 to 4:45 PM, Northwest show time) The Northwest show appears on 21...
St. Paul, MN, May 1, 2021 (Two Cities Pioneer Press, CBS Minnesota) The first shooting incident occurred shortly after 11:30 p.m. Saturday when police were called to the 500 block of Central Avenue.They found two men, ages 25 and 26, standing by their vehicles. The...
The CPRC's report titled "What Is The Danger To Allowing Concealed Handguns On University Property?: Shootings By Permit Holders From 2012 To May 2021" has been referenced in a couple of places by the Montana Attorney General in a new filing that they have made. As is...
The fictional Natasha Romanoff, AKA the Black Widow, plays one of the best spies and assassins in the world. She is always carrying two handguns on her. Possibly it is a Disney, but the new Disney Marvel series "What If . . . " has Romanoff declaring that...
On NBC’s Chicago PD (S9 E4 October 13, 2021), a nine-year-old boy breaks into a man's garage. When asked if a homeowner has locked up his rifles, the man informs Hank Voight (played by actor Jason Beghe), who heads up the special Chicago police unit, that he didn't...
In a hearing about the Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act of 2021, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) challenges Congressman Steve Cohen's (D-TN) claim that there are no Defensive Gun Uses. Congressman Massie responded by reading from a recent report that the...
Dr. John Lott co-authored this piece with Congressman Thomas Massie, who represents Kentucky's Fourth Congressional District and is co-chairman of the Second Amendment Caucus. Everyone wants to stop dangerous people from getting guns. To some, the obvious solution...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist on Democrat claims of voter suppression by Republicans. “Republicans … are trying to systematically prevent ordinary citizens from making their voices heard,” former President Obama warned while campaigning in the...
Dr. John Lott has a piece on the probably upcoming Congressional votes on Biden's massive spending bills. As government spending spirals out of control, where is Montana Sen. Jon Tester? As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee in an evenly divided Senate,...
Dr. John Lott talked to Monica Perez on her podcast, the Propaganda Report, for an hour about a wide range of gun control issues. (Friday, October 22, 2021) Part 1 Part 2
As the Crime Prevention Research Center has pointed out many, many times, television crime shows seem to think criminals are constantly using machine guns to commit crime. In real life, criminals generally use machine guns so rarely that a 2016 survey of prison...
In testimony on Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland walked his earlier statements about potentially charging parents concerned about what their children are learning in schools with domestic terrorism, but he will have the FBI monitor parent behavior. The...