Updated Post (August 21, 2018): In order to protect against lone-wolf terror attacks, Israel is increasing the number of citizens with permits to carry handguns in public. Based on the numbers reported by the Washington Post in May, an increase of between 35,000 and...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Fox News: The anti-Trump media are in an uproar about a comment by President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday that “truth isn’t truth.” News reports have taken Giuliani’s comment completely out of context...
Dr. John Lott was on Chicago's WCGO to discuss the high rate of gang violence in the city. (Monday, August 20, 2018, from 2:05 to 2:30 PM)
Here is a Washington Times article on our research regarding gun-free zones. The Times' article starts this way, and some of our comments are shown below this extended quote. Children are heading back to school with the debate over gun safety still raging six months...
Fox News has an article on our new research on concealed handgun permits. The number of permits to carry concealed weapons in the U.S. has jumped to more than 17.25 million this year, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center. That’s an increase of 890,000...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Daily Caller on the responsibility that the media has in encouraging attacks against them. The piece starts this way: Remember when President Obama accused Fox News of promoting a “destructive” viewpoint or said that his...
Dr. John Lott talked to Kirby Wilbur on KVI about our new report on permitted concealed handguns. (Friday, August 17, 2018, from 7:35 to 7:48 PM)
The CPRC has just issued our newest annual report on the number of concealed handgun permits in the US. A copy of the report is available for download here. Some updated numbers are shown at the bottom of this post. Past reports can be viewed here. The...
Dr. John Lott was on Albany, New York's WGDJ-AM to discuss the increasing number of concealed handgun permit holders. (Friday, August 17, 2018, from 11:05 to 11:30 AM)
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on how the media are encouraging violence against themselves. (Tuesday, August 14, 2018, from 6:45 to 6:57 AM)
ABC's "The Bold Type" is about young women working at fictitious Scarlet magazine in New York City (think Cosmopolitan). Sutton Brady (Meghann Fahy) risks alienating her friends by owning a gun. When roommate Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens) finds out, she confronts Sutton...
This video contains the audio of Dr. John Lott's recent testimony before the Arkansas legislature on school safety. The video also contains the PowerPoint that was presented to the legislature.