From KSL TV in Orem, Utah: A 27-year-old man was fatally wounded in the parking lot of an Orem grocery store Saturday morning when he was shot by a man attempting to stop him from carjacking a woman's SUV, Orem police said. Capt. Ned Jackson of the Orem Police...
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CPRC on Lars Larson to discuss the aftermath of the Baltimore Riots
John Lott talked to Lars Larson about the aftermath of the Baltimore riots on Monday, May 4th from 6:20 to 6:30.
CPRC in the New York Daily News: “Hillary Clinton’s dishonest crime dodge”
John Lott's newest piece at the New York Daily News starts this way: It is easy to forget that, in 1991, the U.S. murder rate was well over twice what it is today. In a speech last week at Columbia University, Hillary Clinton demonstrated she doesn’t understand that...
CPRC on the Sportsman Channel: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro Gun Buyback
John Lott talked to the Sportsman Channel 5:15 to 5:24 PM EDT on Friday, May 1st. Their description of the interview: "In April, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut introduced the 'Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act.'...
CPRC on the Michigan Talk Network: Discuss the Terrorist Attack in Garland, Texas and Bloomberg’s groups continued unwilling to debate
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber at the Michigan Talk Network on Tuesday, May 5th from 6:45 to 6:51 AM.
CPRC at Fox News: “Designer of 3-D-printed gun challenges feds to Constitutional duel”
John Lott was interviewed by Fox News about the Obama administration's latest attempts to ban computer files that allow 3D printers to print guns. This isn't just plastic printers. The metal 3D printers can produce a gun that is identical in many ways to a gun that...
CPRC at Investors Business Daily: The same people who want to disarm police also want to disarm poor blacks
John Lott's newest piece at Investors Business Daily: Police aren't always there to protect people — not in Baltimore, not in Ferguson and not when the average person has to confront a criminal. This is particularly true in the poorest sections of town. Even police...
Correcting the record on David Hemenway’s claim that academics support gun control
David Hemenway wrote an op-ed that was originally published in the Los Angeles Times and then picked up in many other newspapers. The Los Angeles Times was unwilling to publish a letter that the CPRC sent in, but the Wisconsin State Journal did publish the letter in...
CPRC at Fox News: ‘Assault weapons’ debate: The folly of Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s buyback bill
John Lott's newest piece for Fox News starts this way: Gun control advocates introduced a bill in April that only gun control supporters could love. Connecticut Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro is so serious about getting so-called assault weapons off the street that she is...
CPRC at Fox News: “Baltimore riots and the price of protest”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: People have the right to protest, but too many politicians are afraid or unwilling to stop looting and rioting. The dividing line between liberals and conservatives could hardly be starker. When the St. Louis...
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM for two hours to discuss the Baltimore Riots
John Lott was on Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory (weekly audience >2.75 million) for two hours on Tuesday morning to discuss the riots in Baltimore. The audio for the first hour is available here (Tuesday, April 28th, 2015, 1:15 to 2 AM). The audio for the...
CPRC on the Michigan Talk Network to discuss academic views on guns and a lawsuit in Michigan about whether schools can ban open carry of guns
John Lott talked to Steve Gruber at the Michigan Talk Network about recent surveys of academics concerning their views on guns (Tuesday, April 28th, 2015 from 7:35 to 7:43 AM).