Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about the push to erase US history and the federal law that can be used to protect some of the statues. (Wednesday, June 24, 2020, from 8:35 to 8:44 AM)
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Technology used to stop crime: Don’t buy a looted iPhone, it will never work; and other cases
Unlike Android, Apple has figured out a way to discourage people from stealing iPhones. As the number of iPhones stolen in looting increases, thieves are going to try selling them — but Apple has disabled all of them.There is a reason professional thieves steal...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Publishes Bogus Science from RAND on gun control
In a paper titled, “Changes in firearm mortality following the implementation of state laws regulating firearm access and use,” RAND Corporation staffers have published a paper examining child access prevention (CAP), right-to-carry (RTC), and stand your ground (SYG)...
How Technology helped solve crime: IRS using Google Maps to spy on taxpayers
One more thing for taxpayers to worry about. From the Daily Caller: . . . A redacted IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps, as evidence to revoke the 501(c)(4)...
CPRC in the News: Fox News, Townhall, American Thinker, and other places
Deviation from the orthodoxy. John R. Lott, RealClear Politics, Tuesday:New York Times opinion editor James Bennet resigned after daring to publish a column by Republican senator Tom Cotton, who argued for using the military to help quell the riots that arose from...
Just released: Audio version of Nikki Goeser’s “Stalked and Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband in Front of Me”
If you haven't read Nikki Goeser's book, this is a must! The link to her book is available here.
How Technology Killed Auto Theft
Technology has made it very difficult to steal cars made after about 2000. The old cars that can be stolen are not very valuable. If it wasn't for old Hondas retaining some of their value, auto theft would be down even further. From the New York...
On the Michigan Talk Network: Liberal Politicians Who Order Police To Stand Down and Defund Police Are The Same People Who Want To Ban Guns
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about Lott's opinion piece in the Washington Times. (Wednesday, June 17, 2020, from 8:35 to 8:44 AM).
On the Lars Larson Show: Discussing Lott’s Experience with Media Bias at the New York Times
Lars brings on Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, and author most recently of “The War on Guns” to discuss why “open minded” liberals have a track record of not supporting all types of free speech. Dr. John Lott explains to Lars about...
Police Officers facing threats of tampered food
Being a police officer has gotten more dangerous. I have heard of stories where police are changing out of their uniforms before picking up their children at school, that they have moved well out of their cities, to avoid people upset with them being police. Reports...
Nine Defensive Gun Uses where people legally carrying concealed guns have stopped crime, cases from late August to mid September 2019
We normally don't include cases where a business owner or employee stops an attack, as those are quite numerous, unless the case explicitly notes the person had a concealed handgun permit. Philadelphia, PA, August 26, 2019 Police say an armed man in his 30s...
Concealed handgun permit holder saves lives: Man killed by CPL holder after firing gun at vehicles on Saginaw Hwy
While one would think that the most important part of this story was that a man who was standing in the road was firing a gun at vehicles, many news articles on this event focused on the shooter just pointing his gun at people or firing his gun into the air. Some...