Dr. John Lott appeared Jeff Katz Show on the 50,000-watt WRVA to talk about the high school commencement hoax perpetrated by gun control activists. (Tuesday, July 13, 2021, 4:05 pm to 4:17 pm ET).
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CPRC’s Nikki Goeser Given Tennessee’s First Lifetime Order of Protection
Today the CPRC's Nikki Goeser became the first person in Tennessee to receive a lifetime order of protection against the man who murdered her husband over a decade ago. While the murderer has been in prison, he has written nine letters to Nikki. In Christmas and...
Louisiana will have veto override session next Tuesday for veto of Constitutional Carry
Whether Louisiana will join the other 21 Constitutional Carry states will be determined next week. The bill originally passed by veto-proof margins, but the question is whether Democrats will vote the same way overturn a Democrat governor's veto. One Republican state...
Did the Secret Service intervene to protect Hunter Biden from being charged with a federal gun crime? Federal gun laws applied selectively
There is a certain irony that Joe Biden Introduced the gun-free school zone act in the Senate as S.3266 on October 27, 1990. Biden also focused on school safety during his time in the Senate, when he was the key author of the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, which...
Governor Andrew Cuomo will have the new state Office of Gun Violence Prevention will report to the state Department of Health
You might think that if you want to cut down on crime, you would turn to the police to help with that. But in a world of defunding the police, you turn to social workers and public health officials. At least that is the approach in New York. The gov makes a big deal...
CPRC in the News: Forbes, Daily Caller, New York Sun, Media Resource Center, and many more
Polls show that 80% of Americans support requirements for a voter ID, including a photograph. Senator Manchin's substitute bill does not require photo ID. You could use a utility bill or banking statement. A study by economist John Lott finds that 46 of 47 European...
UPDATED: Gun Control Organization “Change the Ref” deceptively edits video of Commencement speech for Fake School, refuses to release video, Other Gun Control Groups applaud
Originally posted at 11:04 AM on Thursday, June 24th, 2021. “As a father whose daughter was murdered in Parkland, I’m all too used to how liberals engage in fraud and narrative-driving stunts to advance their gun control agenda. Lott has done excellent empirical work...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signs Constitutional Carry Bill at the Alamo
You have to admire Governor Greg Abbott's style. Gov. Greg Abbott visited the Alamo Thursday to ceremoniously sign a bill into law allowing most adults to carry a handgun without a permit or training.Lynnanne Nguyễn and Black Hanson, "Texas governor signs new law...
CPRC in the News: Orange County Register, PEW, Business & Politics Review, Townhall, and more
Overall, gun policies in state capitols, even after the January riot in Washington, remain split. About 30 state capitols employ metal detectors, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Conversely, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center,...
On the Dinesh D’Souza Podcast: Discussing Gun Control and Vote Fraud
Dr. John Lott talked to Dinesh D’Souza on his podcast about why more guns mean less crime and also why our new research on voting rules in other countries. (June 14, 2021)
At the Missoulian: Missoulian’s one-sided attack on credibility
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Missoulian responding to a news article attack on him. The Missoulian’s initial report on there being thousands more recorded votes than envelopes for the ballots from Missoula County’s November all-mail-in election was largely a...
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) relies heavily on the CPRC work
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) relied very heavily on the research from the CPRC. Massie's former staffer is our Executive Director, Nikki Goeser. Her recent testimony before the US Senate is available here. Information on safe storage laws is available here. The...