This interview with the Argentine media outlet Aire Libre was conducted with Dr. John Lott back in early August, before he left the CPRC, but it has only now been published. The original article was published on October 20, 2020 in Spanish. Below is a rough...
Nicholasville, Ky, September 23, 2019 According to police, a pizza delivery driver turned the tables on some would-be robbers by pulling out his own weapon and trading shots with them in Nicholasville.This happened outside of the Nicholasville Comfort Inn shortly...
The CPRC has written on the policy importance of state preemption laws on gun control. Almost all states today have a law prohibiting local jurisdictions from imposing gun control restrictions that are more severe than state law (the exemptions are Connecticut (Dwyer...
The CPRC has already documented the huge increase in concealed handgun permits by blacks. From 2015 to 2019/2020, in the four states that provide data by race over that time period, the number of black people with permits increased almost 55.6% faster than the number...
The FBI claims that there were 27 active shooting cases in 2018 and 28 cases in 2019, but they have missed at least seven cases, with at least six cases where a concealed handgun permit holder stopped the attack. So there should be nine cases (14.52%) where people...
Note: Interview of Dr. John R. Lott done before he left the CPRC. This gun-control activist really didn’t like John R. Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. She got right in Lott’s face and began screaming. The thing is, we were in a congressional...
(Monday, October 12, 2020) Dr. John Lott spoke with Lee Matthews about what Biden's policies mean for the future of gun ownership.
A shortage of ammunition in the U.S. is set to continue following record firearms sales this year. Reasons suggested for the high arms sales figures include uncertainty amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming presidential election and civil unrest...
Unlike the NRA, Michael Bloomberg's gun control organizations have depended on a few billionaire donors, notably Bloomberg himself. But what is most notable in this election is that while they spent about $26 million by the middle of October, they have stayed away...
Dr. John Lott talked to Allentown, Pennsylvania's WAEB about Joe Biden's proposed lawsuits against gun makers and sellers and what that would mean for people's right to self-defense. (Monday, October 12, 2020, from 9:05 to 9:30 AM)
Media bias on guns takes many forms. Here is an all too typical example where a character comes out and says: “I don’t like guns.” In an episode titled "The Benefactor," MTV's Teen Wolf has an episode where they first show a man almost accidentally shooting his son...
Conceal carry permits are on the rise, increasing 34% over the past four years. The main driver behind the increase? Women and minorities, according to John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center.The Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard reported that so many...