CPRC's John Lott was on The Jim Bohannon Show for an hour from 10 to 11 PM on Monday, December 16th. The audio is available here.
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CPRC on Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk
John Lott did this interview on Sunday, December 15th from 4:35 to 4:50. The audio of the interview is available here.
Audio of CPRC’s appearance on the Lars Larson Radio Show to discuss Newtown anniversary
Lars Larson describes the discussion this way. We’re approaching to the one-year anniversaries of the murders at Sandy Hook and Clackamas Town Center. Gun control has been one of the hottest topics of this year, but where do we stand on it as we approach these...
Newest Fox News piece: “1 year after Newtown, support for stricter gun control has disappeared”
A New op-ed piece by John Lott starts this way: President Obama has pushed hard for gun control this year and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent millions of dollars on ads, but the administration's promise to coordinate "a November lobbying effort and plan...
Problems with Public Health Research: Michael Siegel, Craig Ross, and Charles King, “The Relationship Between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in the United States, 1981-2010,” American Journal of Public Health
In a recent issue of the American Journal of Public Health, three researchers examine the relationship between "gun ownership" as measured by the percent of suicides committed with firearms. There is a significant literature indicating that this measure actually is...
Problems with Public Health Research: Garen J. Wintemute, “Findings from the Firearms Licensee Survey,” Journal of Urban Health
The quality of research published in medical journals on public health is abysmal. The CPRC will occasionally publish comments on this research. In this case, the full title of the paper by Garen J. Wintemute is "Support for a Comprehensive Background Check...
Polls consistently show that over the last couple decades more people are opposing more gun control
The most recent CNN poll shows more people ever recorded opposing more gun control (UPDATED CNN poll). From CNN, 52% of Americans oppose stricter gun control. The previous high opposition was 55% in September 2014. The average opposition since 1989 was 40%, so the...
CPRC on the Dana Show on December 6th to discuss bill extending ban on plastic guns
The interview with Dana Loesch is available here.
Opinion piece at Fox News: “NFL hypocrisy — Bloomberg anti-gun ads ok but ad about ‘protection’ is banned?”
The piece by the Crime Prevention Research Center starts this way: New York City Mayor and gun control advocate Michael Bloomberg sure knows how to get his way. This week the NFL, after featuring anti-gun ads during the last two Super Bowls, it decided that an ad...
CPRC in the news about Obama’s push for Sandy Hook anniversary events
Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller has this: . . . But at least one prominent gun and crime researcher says he thinks that the OFA campaign is misleading. “Obviously background checks wouldn’t have stopped Newtown,” John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention...
Fusion TV debate on “Are Guns in Classrooms a Good Idea?”
Fusion TV is a joint venture of ABC and Univision, and it is aimed at young people and also Hispanics. This segment is only about a third of our interview. When John Lott was able to respond, he pointed out that Katherine Seymour fears about what might happen weren't...
Rep. Matt Gaetz, The Chair Of Florida “Stand Your Ground” Hearings, cites statistics from CPRC during debate
The Crime Prevention Research Center's recent testimony to the US Senate has had implications for the Stand Your Ground debate in Florida. Rep. Matt Gaetz began quoting from John Lott's testimony at about 3:31 into this video and continues until 4:31. Gaetz's entire...