Dr. John Lott was on the Pat & Stu show to discuss the Crime Prevention Research Center’s new research on concealed handgun permits. Warning: the audio in the video is far from perfect, it is much louder on Dr. Lott’s side of this interview. However, if you don’t need to see the video, the audio at the top is of a much higher quality.…
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson about his piece in the Chicago Tribune on how Democrats are making it particularly difficult for poor blacks to defend themselves.
(Monday, August 7, 2017, from 6:20 to 6:30 PM)
Lars Larson’s show is listened to by over 1.25 million people.
The CPRC has done multiple radio interviews on our new report (e.g., here, here, here, and here), and we continue to get other media coverage.
Fox News, August 2, 2017
…There are more than 16 million concealed-carry permittees in the U.S., a figure that soared 256 percent, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center, under the Obama administration.
On Monday, August 7th at 9:09 PM, Greg Gutfeld discussed Dr. John Lott’s new op-ed in the Chicago Tribune that discussed how gun control laws are disarming the very people, poor blacks, who need protection the most.
…GUTFELD: The reason why we’re doing this segment is because it’s about Chicago, which is a glaring murder problem.
Dr. John Lott has a new piece in the Chicago Tribune today (it will be in the print edition tomorrow). The piece starts this way:
…When it comes to voting rights, any obstacles outrage liberals; even free government-issued IDs are viewed as disenfranchising poor and disproportionately black people. But when it comes to the right to own a gun for self-defense, liberals don’t hesitate to pile on fees, ID requirements, expensive training and onerous background checks.
Fred Kunkle at the Washington Post has a story about the record number of seizures of guns at airports and is calling for stiffer penalties.
…. . . The increase in gun seizures is no doubt a reflection of record numbers of air travelers and the rising number of Americans who have permits to carry concealed weapons.
CPRC original research, firearms found at airports, Media Discussion on CPRC
Dr. John Lott talked to Ben Bell and Mandy on North Carolina’s big WTKF-FM about the CPRC’s new Concealed Carry Study.
(Thursday, August 3, 2017, from 8:15 to 8:25 AM)
The University of Texas system has 221,337 students and 100,312 faculty and staff, and there are over 1.2 million permit holders in Texas, but after the first year that concealed handgun permits were allowed on public universities, there have been no problems. From the Austin American-Statesman about the University of Texas:
…University of Texas police responded to four gun-related incidents in the past 12 months, but only one — involving a photo shoot for a newspaper — can be tied to the controversial state law permitting students to carry concealed handguns in most campus buildings.
Jedediah Bila on ABC’s The View:
…I’m not a gun owner. I spend a lot of time with gun owners and spent a lot of time in Texas. When you study these shootings, what you find out is a lot of the lunatics, these maniacs target gun-free zones. The Aurora shooter, who went in and shot up that movie theater, that Batman movie, he went and specifically went out of region because all of the theaters around him closest to him, people were allowed to carry — they were conceal-carry.
Dr. John Lott was on the Gavin McInnes Show to discuss the Canadian man who took a gun from home invaders and shot one of them only to be charged with attempted murder and nine other firearms charges. They also discussed the new Crime Prevention Research Center study that showed the huge increase in concealed handgun permits.…
