Dr. John Lott spoke to John Brewer on the giant 100,000 watt KPFT-FM left-wing Pacifica Radio in Houston. Lott discussed our new study on concealed handgun permits. Our work, especially the discriminatory aspect of May Issue states, got a positive reaction. (Monday,...
Dr. John Lott debated a lawyer from Nashville, David Randolph Smith, about whether drug addicts who have frequently failed to provide child support be given the option of birth control to reduce their sentences by 30 days. The debate took place on Wednesday, July...
Dr. John Lott has his newest piece in The Hill newspaper on Tuesday's DC Federal Circuit Court decision regarding DC's ban on concealed handguns. The piece starts this way: As of July 3, there were just 124 concealed handgun permit holders in Washington, D.C. But,...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mary Walter and the Daily Caller's Editor Vince Coglianese about the DC Federal Circuit court's decision to strike down the district's strict concealed handgun law and Baltimore City's proposed 1-year mandatory sentence for gun offenders.
Dr. John Lott talked to Radio America about our new research on concealed handgun permits. (Wednesday, July 26, 2017) Greg Corombos, who interviewed Lott for Radio America, wrote up this piece for World Net Daily: . . . In response to losing a series of court cases in...
The CPRC is ranked #6 among the top 50 crime blogs by Feedspot. "Feedspot is a News and Blog Reader used by over one million users Globally. Its a place where users can read all their favorite website in one place." While the CPRC covers many crime issues besides...
LaGrange Daily News (LaGrange, Kentucky), July 5, 2017; Newnan Times-Herald (Georgia), July 5, 2017 A 2014 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center showed that 92 percent of mass shootings in public places between 2009 and 2014 were in GFZ’s. Daily Caller,...
Dr. John Lott talked to Dana Loesch about the new Crime Prevention Research Center report on permitted concealed handguns. The article in The Blaze is available here. (Monday, July 24, 2017, from 6:35 to 6:45 PM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Frank Beckmann on the giant 50,000 watt WJR in Detroit about the huge growth in concealed handgun permits and the demographic changes as more women and minorities have gotten permits. They also discussed what has happened to crime rates and...
Fox News has an article on the DC federal Circuit Court's decision to strike down DC's concealed handgun law (a copy of the decision is available here). The Fox News article contains this: . . . The decision deals another legal blow to efforts by city officials to...
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson about the CPRC's newest report on concealed handgun permits. The report shows a dramatic increase in the number of permit holders as well as the changing demographics of permit holders and how law-abiding they are. (Friday, July...
An Associated Press article on black women's changing views on guns discussed our new study that we released last week. The article appeared in hundreds of publications in the US and around the world. Among other places, the story was picked up was ABC News, New...