From the One America News Network: New research from the Crime Prevention Research Center has demonstrated that more guns mean less crime. An increasing number of states are now enacting laws that make carrying firearms in public a reality. Tuesday, March 12, 2019
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At Townhall.com: Arkansas State Senator Is Wrong About Stand Your Ground Legislation. Here’s Why.
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall.com on the viral video of the Arkansas Democrat state Senator who attacked the Stand Your Ground bill that was before the state Senate Judiciary Committee. Arkansas state Senator Stephanie Flowers captivated the international...
Television Show Bias on gun control: ABC’s The Rookie makes civilians using guns to protect themselves as dangerous and bigoted
This episode of the Rookie makes it look as if civilians who use guns to defend themselves and their families as dangerous and bigoted (S1, E11). This is not the first time this show has attacked private gun ownership (e.g., see here). For other examples of media bias...
CPRC in the News: CNN, lots of TV stations across the US, The Hill, Yahoo! News, Medpage Today, NewsBusters, and much more
CNN, March 7, 2019; WPLG Channel 10 (Miami, Florida), March 7, 2019; KSAT Channel 12 (San Antonio, Texas); KRDO (Colorado Springs, CO), March 7, 2019; KCOY KEYT KKFX TV (Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo, California), March 7, 2019; KESQ Channel 3...
On Dana Loesch’s Relentless:Universal Background Checks a Prelude to National Registration
Dr. John Lott speaks with Dana Loesch about the real problems with universal background checks.
On the Michigan Talk Network: Oklahoma becomes the 16th Constitutional Carry State
Dr. John Lott talks with host Steve Gruber about changes in laws such as Oklahoma allowing carry of a legal gun without a permit. (Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:45am-6:54am)
At Fox News: Dems want $50 million for biased research to attack gun ownership
Dr. John Lott appeared yesterday before the House Appropriations Committee to testify about the need for the CDC to fund research on gun ownership. He has a new piece at Fox News that starts this way: Democrats in the U.S. House are likely to approve spending $50...
CPRC testimony before House Appropriations Committee: Should $50 million be given to the CDC for research on firearms?
Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, testified before the House Appropriations Committee on whether the CDC should get more $50 million to fund public health research on firearms. The video above has excerpts of that testimony. The video...
On the Yuripzy Morgan Show (WBAL 1090AM Baltimore Talk Radio): How gun-control laws harm law-abiding Americans
Dr. John Lott speaks with Yuripzy Morgan at CPAC 2019 on how gun-control laws harm law-abiding Americans, in particular poor minorities living in high crime urban areas. (Friday, March 1, 2019 2:45pm-2:55pm)
CPRC to testify to House Appropriations Committee tomorrow on whether the CDC should get roughly $50 million for firearms research, New York Times Reporter makes explicit his political biases on gun control
Dr. John Lott will be testifying before the House Appropriations Committee tomorrow at 10:30 AM, Thursday, March 7, 2019. The hearing is on whether the Centers for Disease Control should get around $50 million to conduct research on firearms. What the Dickey Amendment...
On The Hill TV: Some of the problems with the latest measures on gun control
Dr. John Lott explains how gun-control laws such as universal background checks, can prevent the most vulnerable people from being able to protect themselves. Those most impacted are poor, law-abiding Americans living in high crime urban areas. Also discussed is the...
CPRC on the Glenn Beck Show at CPAC 2019
Dr. John Lott spoke with Glenn Beck at CPAC 2019 about the dangers of various gun-control laws and how these laws actually prevent those most at risk of being victims of violent crime, from being able to protect themselves. (Friday, March 1, 2019 9:50am-9:57am EST)...












