We have talked to many dozens of people who have been present at these mass public shootings. The feeling of utter helplessness that these victims face as they try to hide from these killers is overwhelming. But with gun-free zones, the only person who has a weapon...
Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News discussed the CPRC's new research on illegal aliens and crime on Tuesday, January 16th, 2018.
Fort Mill, South Carolina, December 21, 2017 (The State newspaper (Columbia, South Carolina), WYFF Channel 4 TV) The attacker wielding a large wrench threatened to kill several people. The attacker had cornered one of the employees at a Chrysler Jeep Dodge...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 11, 2018 The number of Georgians with concealed weapons permits has increased since the gun law was expanded in 2014 to allow people to bring their firearms in government buildings. There were 750,000 active permits in the state...
In November, Scientific American published a longer letter by Dr. John Lott and a rebuttal to his letter online. In an earlier post, we provided a point-by-point rebuttal to Ms. Moyer's claims. Lott had no control over what parts of his letter that Scientific...
The Crime Prevention Research Center is proud to reveal new research that analyzes unique newly released data on crime rates by illegal aliens. Please download a copy: available here. The data as a STATA file is available here. See also the codebook and the "do...
On Monday, Dr. John Lott testified before the Virginia state Senate Courts of Justice Committee. He had been invited to testify by one of the committee members, state Senator Mark Peake. Dr. Lott was the first and primary witness to testify against SB 5, a bill...
Here is a very short clip of Hawaii Five-O trying to provide an example of a concealed handgun permit holder representing a danger to others. Other parts of the program show the permit holder as a real jerk and eventually stealing a gun from a police officer and...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Hill newspaper on the question of what type of immigrants we want to let into the US. The piece starts this way: Is it racist to say that you would prefer immigrants coming to the U.S. who are well-educated, skilled, and...
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber about claims that Dr. Lott is the one person who most angers the gun control community. (Tuesday, January 2, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
From an article at Fox News, December 6, 2017. You can see our research on this topic here and a long list of our publications here.
Congressmen Louie Gohmert gave a talk on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to discuss the false positive rate for NICS background checks. Out of 73,000 initial denials in 2010, there were only 42 cases referred for prosecution and just 13 convictions....