This past week we finally got a look at the diary of the Batman movie theater killer, James Holmes, and it was clear that he was considering both attacking an airport and a movie theater. But he turned down the airport option because he was concerned about their...
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CPRC at Fox News: Baltimore’s soaring murder rate shows that police matter
In an article on the soaring murder rate in Baltimore, Fox News quoted John Lott as saying: “In case people ever needed a reminder, the increase in Baltimore’s murder rate shows how important police are," John Lott, president of Crime Prevention Research Centerand a...
CPRC on the various shows: The Sportsman Channel, Michigan Talk Network, The Michael Dukes Show in Anchorage
John Lott was on the Michigan Talk Network to discuss the increase in crime in Baltimore (Tuesday, May 15, 2015, 6:45 AM) The Michael Dukes Show in Anchorage, Alaska to discuss how difficult it is to stop criminals from getting guns as well as recent cases where...
Maine set to be the 10th state with Constitutional Carry
After bills passed earlier in the year in Kansas and Mississippi, Maine seems set to follow suit. It will bring the total number of states that allow carrying handguns without a permit to 10. Republican Gov. Paul LePage is set to sign the bill. A copy of the bill...
CPRC at Fox News: “‘Covering Guns’: Columbia University’s ‘workshop’ for journalists far from objective”
John Lott's piece at Fox News starts this way: Columbia University would never sponsor an event funded by the National Rifle Association. What’s more, the idea would seem especially outlandish if most of the speakers at the event were NRA supporters. Yet, gun control...
CPRC on the Michigan Talk Network talking about the importance of police in reducing crime
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber at 6:45 AM on Tuesday, May 26th about the importance of police in reducing crime.
CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Twisting statistics to smear cops”
John Lott's latest piece at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review starts this way: False claims about police brutality are poisoning race relations. This feeling of “unfairness,” as President Obama noted in his weekly address on May 16, is “fuel(ing) the kind of unrest that...
Georgia Permit Holder Uses Gun to Stop Carjacking
The fact that the police shook the permit holder's hand says it all. Apparently this is the second time that the permit holder has used his gun in self defense. As the TV anchorwoman says, the permit holder certainly doesn't plan on becoming a victim any time soon....
CPRC at Fox News: “Where’s the coverage of heroes who stop mass killings?”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Heroic citizens stopping someone from killing a large number of people don’t seem to be considered news worthy. Don’t people want to read about a brave soul risking his life by running towards the sound of gunfire...
Is this really a big surprise?: “In Baltimore, Arrests Down and Crime Up”
Police are afraid if they arrest someone or confront a criminal something will go wrong -- that the criminal will die or get hurt and the police officer will become the official criminal. From the Wall Street Journal: The number of arrests has fallen here since...
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM to discuss District Court striking down DC’s restrictive rules on granting concealed handgun permits
John Lott talks to George Noory about Federal Judge striking down D.C.'s new concealed carry law.
CPRC on The Blaze TV: Discussing President Obama’s new rules on so-called “militarization” of police
The video here has the first four minutes of the seven minutes that John Lott was on the show. Fox News has some detailed information here: the White House said that effective immediately, the federal government will no longer fund or provide armored vehicles that run...