Dr. John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: On Sunday, Hillary Clinton just couldn’t bring herself to say on ABC's "This Week" that Americans have an individual right to own guns. But it didn’t stop her from denying Donald Trump’s claim that she wants...
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Updated: Murder and homicide rates before and after gun bans
Original post: Every place that has banned guns (either all guns or all handguns) has seen murder rates go up. You cannot point to one place where murder rates have fallen, whether it's Chicago or D.C. or even island nations such as England, Jamaica, or Ireland. For...
Another gun ban, another bad outcome: Venezuela homicide rate rose after 2012 ban on private ownership of guns
Private gun ownership was banned in Venezuela in June 2012, but their homicide rate went from 73 per 100,000 people in 2012 to 82 per 100,000 people in 2015. A private organization, the Venezuelan Violence Observatory (OVV), puts the rate in 2015 at over 90 per...
Last handgun ban in an American jurisdiction is struck down
The Northern Mariana Islands was the last jurisdiction in the United States where handguns were banned. In the decide federal case Radich v. Guerrero (D.N.M.I. Mar. 28, 2016), a federal district court rule that their bans handguns, bans importing handguns into the...
CPRC on Canadia’s The Rebel to discuss Hamilton Mayor trying to ban guns
The long list of illegal weapons used by the terrorists in the Paris attack
In reaction to the terrorist attack in Paris, we have gotten these types of comments: “There’s too many [expletive] guns out there. Especially in America. I think the population is like, 320 million? There’s over 300 million guns. Privately owned, in America. I think...
CPRC opinion piece on gun bans in the South Australian newspaper The Advertiser
The opinion piece that John Lott with Kesten Green, a professor at the University of South Australia, appeared in the Adelaide newspaper The Advertiser. We will try to add a link to the original article later. (Click on figure to enlarge copy of the op-ed.) UPDATE:...
Fox News Poll: By 2-to-1 margin Americans believe in More Guns, Less Crime
(Click on figure to make it larger.) This result is from a Fox News poll given from January 15-17, 2013, and so it was done right after the Newtown attack. Presumably the results at other times would have been even more lopsided. Still the Fox News survey is possibly...
CPRC participates in CNN discussion on Detroit Police Chief’s statement that letting more people carry concealed handguns will deter more crime
CPRC's John Lott was on Erin Burnett's CNN show on Friday night. The video of the show is available in two parts (here and here). CNN gave this description of the show: A surprising statement on gun violence from the police chief of one of America's most violent...