Dr. John Lott debated Steve Gruber about the most recent push to ban guns after the Las Vegas attack. (Tuesday, October 11, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
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National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers cites CPRC’s research in asking Supreme Court to hear case
Lawyers Jeffrey Green and C. Kevin Marshall on behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers filed a Writ of Certiorari in a case of whether an officer can perform an “annoying, frightening, and perhaps humiliating”” frisk without assessing whether...
CPRC files Writ of Certiorari for Silvester with the Supreme Court
In 2015, the CPRC submitted Amicus Briefs to the 9th Circuit regarding California's 10-day waiting period for those who have already passed a background check and already own guns. A copy of our brief is available here. Here is the Summary of Argument from our Amicus...
In the Daily Caller: “Chicago’s Law-And-Order Policies Are Failing Catastrophically”
Dr. John Lott's latest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Angry that the federal government cut funding to Chicago, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) claimed the Trump administration is contributing to the city’s violence. “So far this year, 3,000 people have been...
Media Matters quotes Bloomberg supported researcher who calls for media to not talk to John Lott
There is a long history of those associated with Michael Bloomberg and other gun control groups refusing to debate Dr. John Lott. Here is one example at C-SPAN where Bloomberg's Everytown research director Ted Alcorn refused to debate. Other examples of...
Former CEO of NPR gives shoutout to John Lott for his help on Tucker Carlson’s TV Show, Mark Levin Radio Show
Tucker Carlson interviewed Ken Stern, a former CEO for NPR and a Democrat, about his new book "Republican Like Me." Stern talked to experts in all sorts of areas, and the one person who he was nice enough to mention in this segment was Dr. John Lott. Stern mentioned...
On Southern California Public Radio to debate new claims about gun show regulations
Dr. John Lott debated Ellicott Matthay, a Ph.D. candidate in epidemiology at UC Berkeley, on Southern California's Public Radio (KPCC) about a new study she worked on that examined the impact of gun show regulations. Larry Mantel always does a good interview. As...
New Public Health Study on Gun shows in Annals of Internal Medicine (also our discussion in the Washington Examiner)
A new study from The Annals of Internal Medicine titled "In-State and Interstate Associations Between Gun Shows and Firearm Deaths and Injuries" Results: Compared with the 2 weeks before, postshow firearm injury rates remained stable in regions near California gun...
Acknowledging the media bias on guns from former CEO of National Public Radio
The former CEO of National Public Radio Ken Stern has a piece at the New York Post on the media's bias on guns. From the NY Post: . . . Over the course of this past year, I have tried to consume media as they do and understand it as a partisan player. It is not so...
At Fox News: “NFL kneeling protests based on false claims and misleading media reports”
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Fox News that is based upon our research done by the CPRC on police shootings. The piece starts as follow: The NFL players kneeling during the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” in football stadiums across the country are...
CPRC’s website gets more traffic around the world than the NRA, Everytown, Brady Campaign, GOA, and many others
While the CPRC covers many crime issues besides gun control and our budget might be a tiny fraction of the budgets for groups on either side of the debate such as Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign, and Gun Owners of America, our research...
Permitted concealed handguns stop two kidnappings, in another case holding a killer until police arrive, and other cases
Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas Review-Journal, October 19, 2017 As he always does before leaving his house, Pearson, a concealed-carry weapon permit holder, put his pistol on his hip. . . . “About 50 yards in front of me, the driver grabs this young child and starts...