The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has just released a new report titled: CRS Mass Murder with Firearms Incidents and Victims 1999-2013. USA Today's headline provides a typical reaction: "Report: Mass public shootings on rise." While the report points to...
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CPRC in the Daily Caller: What Mother Jones Missed In Its Hit Piece About Me
John Lott's newest piece at the Daily Caller starts this way: Mother Jones, a leftist magazine funded by people such as George Soros, and I have been in a running feud for years. They have continually made false claims about guns, often claims that have been cited by...
Dramatic video of store owner using an “assault weapon” to defend his store against 3 armed robbers
The video of this dramatic defensive gun use is available here. This story is from a local television station in Milwaukee. WISN 12 News has obtained surveillance video of a Milwaukee man defending his store against brazen would-be burglars who smashed into his...
CPRC on Fox News: LIES AND LAWLESSNESS
LIES AND LAWLESSNESS: Does gun ownership lead to more homicides, suicides and accidental deaths? Is rape rampant on campus? The media certainly says so. John Lott weighs in.
A response to Mother Jones’ mistake filled article on John Lott and the Crime Prevention Research Center
The altered image above is from a new Mother Jones' article, which was written to try discrediting John Lott and the Crime Prevention Research Center. Mother Jones is willing to do anything to push for gun control. The magazine is very left-leaning and is funded by...
CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Don’t leave our military personnel defenseless
John Lott's newest piece in the Tribune-Review starts this way: Anytime, anyplace, terrorists can strike. With just his signature, President Obama could eliminate the gun-free zone policies that leave our military personnel defenseless. Late last week, Republicans in...
CPRC on Coast to Coast AM to discuss the Mass Public Shooting that was stopped by a permit holder in Southern Ohio
John Lott talked to George Noory about the case from 1:08 to 1:11 AM on Tuesday, July 28, 2015.
CPRC at Fox News: “Gun-free zones are killing us”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: Hours before the latest shooting at a movie theater in Louisiana, President Obama lamented what he regards as his greatest failure as president – his inability to pass gun control measures. In an interview with the...
CPRC at Laura Ingraham’s new site LifeZette: “Obama’s Not Done with Guns”
John Lott's piece at Laura Ingraham's new site LifeZette starts this way: President Obama wants to take away people’s guns. Last week, he lamented to the BBC that his biggest frustration as president was not getting major gun control passed during his presidency. How...
Permit holder saves family of 4 that man was shooting at
Thomas McCary (Hamilton County sheriff's office) Fox 19 in Cincinnati, Ohio originally reported this story from Winton Hills, Ohio. Fox News has this: [Thomas] McCary [62-years-old] was arguing with a woman around 8 p.m. Sunday night and, when the woman’s brother,...
Washington Post’s misleading article on “mass shootings” — falsely claiming “204 mass shootings” when virtually none of these cases qualify for the normal definition of “mass,” UPDATED: Response from Washington Post
Click on screenshots to enlarge. Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post has another article on guns. Unfortunately, Ingraham explicitly ignores the FBI's definition on mass shootings. The cases he ends up with involve very few murders and are heavily biased to...
CPRC on the Laura Ingraham Show: The Danger of Gun-free Zones
John Lott talked to Laura Ingraham about the dangers of gun-free zones for the military and other places (Friday, July 24, 2015 from 10:07 to 10:16 AM).