Even with Stand Your Ground laws, some prosecutors aren't always the most reasonable. A recent case involving Stephen Maddox, an Oklahoma man who was visiting North Carolina, illustrates the point. Maddox claimed that Kelly Wilkerson attacked him three times. The...
Dr. John Lott debated Steve Gruber about President Trump overturning Obama’s ban on supplying surplus military equipment to police. Our piece at Fox News on this issue is available here. (Tuesday, August 29, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:53 AM)
For our lists of other cases where permit holders have used guns to stop crime click here. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, WISN 12 News, August 18, 2017 The car owner, a 24-year-old man, fired shots at the suspects. They then drove away in the same car they came in. Their white...
UPDATE: The Des Moines Register has published a debate that we have had in the pages of their Sunday paper over the last couple of weeks. Original post: This past Wednesday the Des Moines Register ran an editorial calling for more gun control as a way of saving...
We have worked hard to revise and expand our research on police shootings. We are proud of this research, and strongly recommend that people download it and read it. The study is available here. Abstract Using a unique new data set on police-involved homicides, we...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna Show on the big 50,000-watt WISN to discuss the new CPRC report on women and blacks getting more concealed handgun permits. (Thursday, July 20, 2017, from 5:35 to 5:50 PM)
With all the commotion over Ed Cunningham's resignation from ESPN, the media is solely focused on concussions in football. While this involves legal violence, not crime, the piece still illustrates how media does a very poor job of informing people about what is...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk on the Crime Prevention Research Center's new research on Bloomberg's push for background checks on the private transfer of guns. If you can't make out the slides in this talk, they are from Lott's book "The War on Guns" and can be seen...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna Show on the big 50,000-watt WISN to discuss how Democrats disarm the poor and new attacks on concealed carry. (Friday, August 25, 2017, from 5:35 to 5:50 PM)
From One America News: "A new report shows gun ownership appears to be more popular than ever in America. One America's John Hines has more from Washington." The reporter mangles the name of the Crime Prevention Research Center, but that is the only mistake in the...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk on the Crime Prevention Research Center's on Mass Public Shootings and Gun-free zones. Unfortunately, the first few minutes of the beginning of the talk is missing. The first reference is to a quote from former President Obama that if guns...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk on the Crime Prevention Research Center's new research on the changing face of people who are carrying permitted concealed handguns. The slides in the talk are available here or in his book "The War on Guns." (Saturday, August 26th, 2017 at...