Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Daily Caller deals with the current gun debate: The media — from fact checkers to late night talk shows — has had a field day claiming that Trump is making false statements on guns. The media ought to have lost credibility by now. Last...
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CPRC at Fox News on new California Initiative to require background checks on ammunition purchases
Fox News has a news story on a new initiative being offered by California’s Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. The initiative has includes proposals either not approved by the the Democrat controlled legislature because they were viewed as unworkable or vetoed by the governor. ....
CPRC in the News: Associated Press, Washington Post, Washington Times (3 times), and other places
Washington Post, January 18, 2016 The number of concealed handgun permits has increased over the past decade, from 4.6 million in 2007 to more than 12.8 million in 2015, according to a recent report from the Crime Prevention Research Center. . . . Santa Fe New...
CPRC at LifeZette: “No, 90% Don’t Want More Background Checks”
John Lott has an op-ed at LifeZette on whether there is the claimed support for background checks on private gun transfers. Gun control advocates like President Obama keep claiming that 80 to 90 percent of Americans are in favor of expanded background check...
CPRC at the Voice of America on School Shootings
Voice of America, October 13, 2015 Critics, such as John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, take issue with Everytown’s numbers. “A number of fact checks have found significant mistakes in Everytown’s report,” Lott said in an email. “Among their...
UPDATED: Comparing Death Rates from Mass Public Shootings and Mass Public Violence in the US and Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXGgI2E5JUw Update Post: For our latest work comparing mass public shootings across countries, please click here and here. For those interested, Snopes.com has given this research below a "mixed" rating. For a discussion of...
CPRC at Fox News: “Media misfire? Columbia J-school, Bloomberg unite to teach gun coverage”
Perry Chiaramonte's news article has this discussion of the CPRC and our survey that Gary Mauser oversaw of economists and their views on gun control: Critics who think the media has an anti-firearm agenda won't like the lineup behind a high-powered, upcoming seminar...
CPRC at Fox News: Why Michael Bloomberg’s latest push for gun control is all wrong
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Michael Bloomberg is spending tens of millions of dollars trying to convince state legislatures to support restrictive gun control laws. From television and newspaper ads, to blanketing communities with flyers, to...
CPRC at Fox News: “Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun propaganda”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: When former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control groups release a report, they consistently garner massive, uncritical news coverage. Alas. With the huge number of factual mistakes in these reports,...
New Report from Crime Prevention Research Center shows 11.1 million Americans Hold Concealed Carry Permits
UPDATE: Newest numbers 14.5 million permit holders in 2016. The report below is for 2014. The later reports for 2015 and 2016 can be seen here. ORIGINAL POST: Concealed-Carry-Permit-Holders-Across-the-United-StatesThe Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) today...
UPDATED information on K-12 and University School Shootings Deaths: The number of deaths has been declining over time
Updated school shooting data is available here. (Click on a figure to make it larger.) Using data from the National School Safety Center, Slate, Michael Bloomberg (as viewed on June 13, 2014), and CNN shows a significant drop in firearms deaths at schools over the...
Greg Gutfeld mentions John Lott’s work in discussing Bloomberg’s false 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook claim
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Bloomberg's cases involve shootings near a school and a large percentage are gang shootings after hours. While gang fights over drug turf are an important problem, they are a very different issue with different solutions...