Dr. John Lott talked to Matt Garret on the giant 50,000 watts KOKC about our new research on the geographic concentration of murders in the US. (Thursday, May 4, 2017, 6:20 to 6:50 PM)
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On the Lars Larson Show regarding the geographic concentration of murders in the US, also the Larry Elder Show
Dr. John Lott joined Lars Larson to discuss the CPRC's new research showing the geographic concentration of murders in the US. (Wednesday, May 3, 2017, from 6:45 to 6:52 PM) Lars Larson's show is listened to by over 1.25 million people. Larry Elder also briefly...
UPDATED: Georgia becomes the 12th Campus Carry State
On Thursday, May 4th, Georgia became the 12th state that mandates that public universities allow people to carry guns on campus. Following Arkansas, Georgia is also the second state to pass campus carry this year. The other eleven states are: Arkansas, Colorado,...
Some Defensive Gun Uses with permitted concealed handguns over last month, a mass public shooting may have been stopped
Arlington, Texas, May 3, 2017 A concealed carry holder is being heralded as a "hero" by Arlington police for preventing mass murder by killing an "incoherent" gunman at a bar Wednesday evening. Before he was shot about 6:15 p.m., the gunman killed the manager of Zona...
Interview with America’s 1st Freedom: “John Lott Q&A | America’s Murder ‘Problem'”
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by America's 1st Freedom about the geographic concentration of murder in the US. Here is the interview: Many in the so-called “mainstream” media like to use America’s “murder epidemic” as a call to action for more restrictive gun laws....
In Texas state Senate and House, Only Democrats voted against lowering fees for permitted concealed handguns
UPDATED: Democrats say that the support the poor, but when it come to letting the poor defend themselves, if it were up to Democrats in Texas, they would never have lowered the fees paid the state for permits. In Texas only Democrats voted against reducing the fee...
CPRC’s website gets more traffic in US than Everytown, Brady Campaign, GOA, and many others
The CPRC budget might be a tiny fraction of the budgets for groups such as Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety, the Brady Campaign, and Gun Owners of America, but our research is getting more attention, at least as measured by website traffic in the US (Alexa...
In Real Clear Policy: “Murder Isn’t a Nationwide Problem”
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in Real Clear Politics today on our work on the concentration of murder and gun ownership in the US. The vast majority of murders in the United States occur in just a tiny percentage of counties. In fact, the country can be divided up into...
Talk in Atlanta on The War on Guns
On Sunday, April 30th, 2017, Dr. John Lott gave a well-attended talk in Atlanta on his book, The War on Guns, though it also contains some new information from a report just issued by the CPRC on how concentrated murders are in the US.. Chris Kellett, a Minnesota...
In The Washington Times: “A fair debate on guns is needed, but liberal lobbying groups refuse to participate”
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Washington Times about how gun control advocates refuse to debate gun control: When you receive glowing media attention and have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, you don’t really have to debate. Michael Bloomberg just...
CRPC Research Showing that most US murders occurred in 2% of Counties Covered by Fox News, Washington Times, and many others
Fox News had a top of the front web page discussion on our new research on murders overwhelmingly taking place in just a tiny part of the US. Many other publications from the Washington Times, Yahoo Finance, One News Now, and others ran similar stories. Here is the...
Bloomberg’s Everytown Vows to “We’ll spend what it takes” to push gun control at both state and federal level
Just a few weeks ago, Michael Bloomberg promised to spend $25 million to defeat Congressmen and Senator who support concealed handgun reciprocity and apparently even more on state legislative races ("turning much of its attention to state legislatures . . ."). Now...