Putting 10,000 French soldiers in front of Jewish facilities will offer little protection as terrorists have control over where and when they attack. Terrorists have important strategic advantages in picking the time and place for attacks. Putting uniformed guards...
Blog
The long list of illegal weapons used by the terrorists in the Paris attack
In reaction to the terrorist attack in Paris, we have gotten these types of comments: “There’s too many [expletive] guns out there. Especially in America. I think the population is like, 320 million? There’s over 300 million guns. Privately owned, in America. I think...
Adjusting NICS checks for background checks for Concealed Handgun Permits
You can compare these adjusted numbers to the official NICS numbers. This adjustment is significant -- the NICS numbers are 42.6% higher in 2013 than these adjusted numbers. But the numbers show similar changes in gun ownership over time. The adjusted numbers...
CPRC on WVON in Chicago for a lively discussion on black’s trust of police officers
Maya Akai had John Lott on WVON, the big black talk radio station in Chicago, to discuss his findings that if you look at the rate that blacks report crimes to police it appears that blacks trust police more than most people believe. It was a very lively program,...
CPRC at Fox News: “The bias against guns: What the media isn’t telling you”
CPRC's John Lott has a new piece at Fox News that starts this way: Just two days before New Year’s, a 2-year-old accidentally shot and killed his mother at a Wal-Mart in rural Idaho. The victim was Veronica Rutledge, a 29-year-old concealed handgun permit holder. The...
CPRC opinion piece in the South Australian newspaper The Advertiser: “There are limits to how well police and security agencies can protect us”
CPRC president John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green have a new piece in the South Australian newspaper The Advertiser. Their piece starts this way: HOW can we get back to feeling safe about taking the kids to school, going about our work and meeting friends...
CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: “Do Blacks Really Feel Especially Distrustful Of Cops?”
CPRC's piece in Investors' Business Daily starts this way: With chants of "NYPD, KKK" and signs saying "Stop Racist Police Terror" up until days before Christmas, protesters in New York made it clear that they don't trust the police. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's...
Dramatic video of a passerby with a concealed handgun permit saving a woman who was being attacked in her car
From CBS-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth about a case in Southlake, Texas: A North Texas man is being heralded a hero after police said he held a man at gunpoint who was assaulting a woman. The tense standoff broke out on Friday near the intersection of Carroll Avenue and...
Tragedy of Idaho permit holder illustrates lopsidedness of news coverage on guns, CPRC gets extensive news coverage over number of concealed handgun permits in Idaho
The horrible tragic death of Veronica J. Rutledge in Idaho obtained massive national news coverage. The 29-year-old mother was accidentally shot to death when her two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired her handgun. The news coverage generally provided little...
CPRC at Fox News: “Why most Americans oppose more gun control”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: A new Pew Research Center survey finds that, for the first time in their surveys, the majority of Americans oppose more gun control. Gallup and CNN polls tell a similar story. Opposition to gun control has been...
Dispelling myths about guns, CPRC on The Flipside with Michael Loftus
One should watch the whole show, as Michael Loftus is a very amusing guy. John Lott's interview starts at 11 minutes into the video and ends at 16:02. This show was broadcast on Tuesday, December 23, 2014.
How many college women suffer sexual assaults?
The 2007 Campus Sexual Assault Study (CSA) made quite a splash when it came out. The survey used a Web-based survey with 5,446 females and found 13.7% of females ages 18 to 25 who were enrolled in two colleges had experienced a completed sexual assault since entering...