PragerU has a video on gun control that references the CPRC research on mass public shootings in gun-free zones and the impact of Australia's 1996-97 gun buyback on crime rates. The number we have on mass public shootings in gun-free zones since 1950 is 94%. If we had...
The US Department of Homeland Security declares: "Workers supporting the operation of firearm or ammunition product manufacturers, retailers, importers, distributors, and shooting ranges" are essential. This decision will have an impact on various court cases across...
Dr. John Lott joined The Tennessee Star Report's Michael Patrick Leahy on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC to discuss our new empirical work on the Coronavirus and seasonality. (Tuesday, March 24, 2020, from 8:21 to 8:30 AM)
A dramatic shooting was stopped on Friday night, March 27th, 2020 at a shopping center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This attack fits definition of what could have been a mass public shooting: a shooting in pubic that did not involve some other type of crime. Without the permit...
Dr. John Lott was on Larry Elder’s national radio show to discuss mayors and governors as they deem gun shops 'not essential,' and force them to close. Is this a wise policy? (Wednesday, March, 2020, from 7:21 to 7:30 PM)
Dr. John Lott appeared on both the Lars Larson National and Northwest Radio Shows to discuss our work on whether the Coronavirus will recede as spring arrives and on quantifying the benefits from Trump's policies. (Friday, March 20th, 2020) The Northwest show appears...
Steve Gruber and Dr. John Lott talk about COVID-19 and Self Defense.
Dr. John Lott joined Vicki on the Vicki McKenna Show to go over the varied responses in both the US and globally to the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19. John and Vicki discussed the responses to this pandemic outbreak from countries such as China...
TV shows continually illustrate criminals using machine guns, with police officers in these episodes completely outgunned by multiple criminals with machine guns (Chicago PD S7 E16, March 4, 2020; Hawaii Five-O, Season 10, Episode 20, March 13, 2020). On TV...
UPDATE: Even as recently as at least March 31st, the government was still assuming that the Coronavirus is seasonal. "The models predictions have the surge in deaths going into the summer." ORIGINAL: Professor Timothy Craig Allen, a number of our Board of Directors...
Dr. John Lott joined the show to discuss his piece in Townhall about the Trump administration’s quick response to the coronavirus outbreak. (Friday, March 13, 2020, from 6:35 to 6:45 PM)
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall about the surge in gun sales. Police are cutting back on policing, and Americans are getting scared. Along with toilet paper, they are also buying guns and ammunition. Some are getting concealed handgun permits.“So American …...