From WCHS ABC TV in Kanawha County, West Virginia on Thursday, February 19th: . . . Eight people were inside the pharmacy in Pinch when the suspect came through the door about 9:45 a.m. Kanawha deputies said the man, identified by Kanawha deputies as Terry...
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CPRC on the Steve Malzberg Show: How guns help stop terrorism and the New York Times makes embarrassing mistakes
John Lott was on the Steve Malzberg TV show on NewsMaxTV today. The video of the show is available here. Friday, February 20, 2015, 4:34 to 4:39 PM. Founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of "More Guns, Less Crime" joins Steve to...
Updated: Comparing conviction rates between police and concealed carry permit holders
A recent study provides numbers on police convictions over a three-year period from January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2007. This data was put together by doing news searches on media sources throughout the US. There are two reasons that their method makes police...
A picture illustrating why armed guards in front of Jewish facilities won’t work
The picture from the New York Daily News shows armed guards outside a Jewish building in Denmark. These guards present a clear target. Terrorists would target them first. It is very difficult for guards to be on alert at all times as these guards illustrate. The...
CPRC at Fox News discussing “Microstamping” shell casings
From "Gun rights groups await judge's ruling on California's 'microstamping' law" by reporter Malia Zimmerman at Fox News: California's gun laws are among the nation's strictest, but a looming decision in a federal lawsuit could effectively ban handguns altogether in...
Bloomberg’s Moms Demand Action makes false statement to Texas state Senators, claiming that there are no numbers on the behavior of permit holders
The bizarre thing here is that Moms Demand Action really thought that they could get away with their claim that there is no data available on how permit holders behave. Surely, Texas state Senators know what information is offered by the Texas Department of Public...
CPRC at Fox News: “Let’s not be so quick to believe gun-control rhetoric”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News on the New York Times reporting the latest Violence Policy Center claims starts this way: People walking the streets with guns pose a danger to others, right? With 12 million Americans across all 50 states now having concealed...
Errors in the New York Times: Editorial, “Concealed Carry’s Body Count,” 2/11
There are many errors in the New York Times on guns all the time. We regularly send letters to the Times, but they aren't interesting in correcting the errors. Dear Letters Editor: The Times erroneously asserts that over almost eight years there were 722...
Woman shoots man, a sex offender, who broke into her home at 4:30 AM
From KLTV in Tyler, Texas about a home invasion in Van Zandt County (just east of Dallas): . . . According to the Van Zandt County Sheriff's Office, at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, they received a 911 call from a homeowner on Texas State Highway 19 north of Canton, in rural...
Why have a concealed handgun at a restaurant?: 23-year-old National Guard member stops three armed robbers at a Sonic restaurant
From WXIA TV (Channel 11) in Atlanta: A 23-year-old National Guard member foiled an attempted robbery at a DeKalb County restaurant Sunday night. It happened at the Sonic in the Belvedere Plaza shopping center near the intersection of Memorial and Columbia drives. . ....
CPRC interviewed on Chuck Woolery’s show Blunt Force Truth
Blunt Force Truth, Episode 7: "The show also delves into the media’s bias against guns, the issue of gun free zones, how progressives are moving to reduce gun ownership in America, and what progressives stand to gain from this change." Part 1 Part 2
Standing Room Only at Kennesaw State University talk on “Guns, Crime, and Terrorism”
In a week that saw the CPRC giving talks in Albany, Miami, Georgia, and Missouri, here is a picture from the first of the two talk that John Lott gave at Kennesaw State University.