Former senior advisor for research and statistics for the U.S. Department of Justice, John R Lott Jr., claims the FBI has misreported how many armed citizens have stopped active shooters. Lott had the task of evaluating the FBI’s active shooting reports. He found the...
Media Coverage
On Nashville’s WKRN-TV about Expanding Tennessee’s Lifetime Order of Protection, warning the TV station misleading uses Nikki Goeser’s answer to one question to answer another one
News media bias shows up in many ways. One way biases arise is by reporters using answers from one question for another. That happened in this case for our Nikki Goeser. Nikki was largely responsible for the idea behind the Lifetime Order of Protection. The interview...
Nikki Goeser at Press Conference at the Tennessee State Legislature’s Special Session on Gun Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FkZYKpuBOQ Tennessee Governor Bill Lee called for a special session for the legislature to consider gun control laws in response to the Covenant School shooting in Nashville in March 2023. The Crime Prevention Research Center's Nikki...
Babylon Bee Video relies heavily on the Crime Prevention Research Center’s Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyms4cNSbo The Babylon Bee relies on some discussions from the CPRC website. Some of their video is clearly taken directly from our video with John Stossel about mass public shootings in countries worldwide....
Our research is getting seriously discussed by politicians in South America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egYYtI1jHSQ This segment is from Willax TV on Sunday, August 6th. The guest was Fernando Rospigliosi (the Former Minister of Interior). Minister Rospigliosi's was referring to Dr. Lott's talk in Lima, Peru that is available here. Here...
Interview with Ecuador’s Expreso Newspaper: “US experts recommend arming the population to defend themselves against crime”
The CPRC's Kerry Slone and John Lott talked to two major newspapers in Ecuador. Here is a story that came out on August 9th from their interview with Espresso in Guayaquil, population 2.7 million US experts recommend arming the population to defend themselves against...
Dr. Lott’s Offer to Bet Other Academics on How Lula’s Gun Laws Will Impact Brazil’s Homicide Rate Gets Coverage in Brazil
Dr. John Lott's offer to bet academics on how Brazil's homicide rate will change with their new gun control laws has gotten some attention in Brazil. Less access to guns, less crime? American expert contests and provokes with betJohn Lott, an American gun expert,...
CPRC in the News: Fox News, Washington Examiner, Business & Politics, and more
Crime Prevention and Research Center chief John Lott detailed in a post on his website the case of Virginia woman Deja Taylor, whose 6-year-old son shot and injured his teacher in January. "Biden’s plea deal ‘lets him dodge possible charges on money laundering,...
CPRC in the News: C-SPAN, Washington Examiner, The New York Sun, Breitbart, and much more
CSPAN Washington Journal Saturday, December 17, 2022 Then again also, too, that’s no easy gantlet. It would require approval by three-quarters of the states. Mr. Newsom, whatever else one can say about him, is not dumb. He knows that the chances of getting three...
CPRC’s research mentioned on Fox News after Nashville Covenant School Shooting
Fox News Laura Ingraham April 1, 2023 Laura Ingraham interviewed Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles (R) about the Nashville Covenant school shooting. April 1, 2023
CPRC in the News: ABC News, Just the News, El Tiempo Latino, The Virginia Pilot, and more
John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a national gun rights advocacy group, told ABC News that it's "incredibly unusual" that the Covenant School shooter's writings haven't already been released. "To me, the important thing is to learn the...
Story of how the Oregon Senate Democrats wouldn’t let John Lott to testify as an expert at a hearing on gun licensing rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgIVIHXhxvQ&t=2s The above video is about what Dr. John Lott went through to testify before the Oregon State Senate Judiciary Committee. A copy of his testimony is shown below. When John Lott, founder and CEO of the Crime Prevention...