CPRC's John Lott has a new piece at National Review on Hillary Clinton's views on gun control. What does Hillary Clinton really believe on guns? This year, she is running to the left of Bernie Sanders. In 2008, she ran well to the right of Obama, arguing against any...
Townhall, April 23, 2016 Wisconsin reached a major milestone this week: 300,000 of its residents are licensed to carry a concealed firearm. That’s eight percent of the state’s population. . . . The Crime Prevention Research Center also issued a report saying that more...
Hillary Clinton has previously spoken out on restricting people being able to carry permitted concealed handguns on May 6, 2014: “We’re way out of balance. I think that we’ve got to reign in what has become an almost article of faith that anybody can have a gun...
By overwhelming votes, the Tennessee legislature passed three bills that get rid of gun-free zones at public universities and provides immunity to businesses if they don't post ban. CPRC's John Lott testified on all three bills when they started in the state Senate...
In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, they mention a tweet that CPRC's John Lott had on Harriet Tubman and concerns that her choice may be a politically correct move. John Lott makes a pithy case for the contrary. An expert on the Second Amendment and sometime...
Nikki Goeser, Director of Communications for the Crime Prevention Research Center, speaks with host Tim Constantine on The Capitol Hill Show about the dangers of gun-free zones and how these gun control laws make good people vulnerable. Hear Ms. Goeser tell how her...
This is John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily: President Obama wants to put gun dealers out of business. When he was a state senator in Illinois, he supported a ban on the sale of handguns and all semi-automatic guns as well as a ban on selling guns...
Original post: Every place that has banned guns (either all guns or all handguns) has seen murder rates go up. You cannot point to one place where murder rates have fallen, whether it's Chicago or D.C. or even island nations such as England, Jamaica, or Ireland. For...
CPRC's John Lott debated Anthony Graves, who was exonerated of committing a murder in Texas. The debate was on TRT World's The Newsmakers. That is on the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation. Survey on Death Penalty Research from John Lott's Freedomnomics Angus...
The proposition for debate was: “In order to reduce its murder-rate, the U.S. needs more stringent gun-control laws.” John Lott argued against the proposition. Dr. Lott’s book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” now in its third edition, was first published in 1998. He holds a...
Dr. John Lott speaks with host Steve Gruber about a gun-control debate in New York City with former President of The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Paul Helmke. Also discussed are what concerns we should have with a Supreme Court that may change it's...
Private gun ownership was banned in Venezuela in June 2012, but their homicide rate went from 73 per 100,000 people in 2012 to 82 per 100,000 people in 2015. A private organization, the Venezuelan Violence Observatory (OVV), puts the rate in 2015 at over 90 per...