John Lott talked to Dana Loesch on her TV show about the New York Times reliance on the Violence Policy Center's discussion about concealed handgun permit holders (6:15 to 6:22 PM, October 26, 2015). The whole segment is available here.
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New Concealed Handgun Permit Holder defends himself from three robbers, one of whom was armed
Fox TV Channel 2 in Detroit: . . . Tremain, who doesn't want to be identified because his family fears retaliation, says his brother had just finished work and was waiting for the bus at Schaefer and West Outer Drive on the west side when three teens confronted him....
How Bloomberg’s Everytown discusses gun-free zones: unable to debate the facts, they engage in false personal attacks
Gun-free zones are a serious problem. Shannon Watts, the head of Michael Bloomberg's Moms Demand Action, claimed that research that John Lott had done was "wrong and misleading" and that Lott was "debunked." When Lott responded...
Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham again cherry picks research and misstates what those studies show
The Washington Post's Christopher Ingraham has another new post on gun control (earlier ones here), where he is claiming that most people are wrong to believe that permitted concealed handguns make them safer. In this case, Ingraham is responding to a new Gallup poll...
CPRC on Southern California’s Public Radio station KPCC: Is the decline of gun ownership inevitable?
John Lott debated Adam Winkler on Larry Mantle's show about Winkler's claim that demographic changes imply that the decline in support for gun ownership is "inevitable" (Click here Tuesday, October 20, 2015 from 2:15 to 2:45 PM EDT).
CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: “‘Demographic Death’ Of NRA Just Another Big Media Myth”
John Lott's latest piece at Investor's Business Daily responds to a recent op-ed by Adam Winkler in the Washington Post. Another version of this appeared in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review and is provided below. Lott's piece is as follows: Gun ownership is greatest...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: “Hillary Clinton Is Wrong About Gun Laws In Australia And The UK”
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Democrats keeping telling people that they don’t want to confiscate their guns, but at the same time they are praising the gun control laws in countries that have confiscated people’s guns. But Hillary...
Powerful ad illustrating that it is poor blacks, particularly women, who need guns the most for protection
John Lott's research shows that there are two groups of people who benefit the most from owning guns: 1) poor blacks who live in high crime urban areas (people who are most likely to be victims of violent crime) and 2) people who are relatively weaker physically...
Gallup: By a 56 to 41 Percent Majority, Americans Believe that More People Carrying Concealed Handguns make US Safer
For almost all categories of Americans, there is significant support for the notion that allowing people to carry permitted concealed handguns makes Americans safer. Only Democrats and those with a post-graduate education do not believe this, but that doesn't mean...
CPRC in the news around the world: The UK Guardian, Detroit Free Press, Orange County Register, and others
The Orange County Register (Orange County, California) and the Press Enterprise (Riverside County, California), October 20, 2015 But if someone is intent on breaking laws against murder, it is safe to assume that laws creating “gun-free zones” will not deter them. In...
CPRC at the Voice of America on School Shootings
Voice of America, October 13, 2015 Critics, such as John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, take issue with Everytown’s numbers. “A number of fact checks have found significant mistakes in Everytown’s report,” Lott said in an email. “Among their...
CPRC at National Review: “Right-to-Carry Laws Have Reduced the Carnage from Mass Shootings”
John Lott has a new piece at National Review that starts this way: Some have a hard time accepting that criminals can be deterred from committing crimes. They don’t believe that potential mass shooters have second thoughts when faced with the prospect of armed...