The audio of the discussion on KPCC is available here. Where should people be allowed to bring their guns? What will the impact of looser regulations be at the state and national level? How would a program that allows nationwide concealed weapons work? What are the...
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CPRC on Fox News discussing Georgia getting rid of some gun free zones, other related media
Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a>Fox News on April 24th from 3:33 to 3:37 PM. The Georgia State House passed the bill 112 to 58 and the State...
CPRC Board member Arthur Berg’s piece in the Wall Street Journal: “How to Stop a Would-Be Killer at a Military Base”
CPRC Board member Arthur Berg had a piece in the Wall Street Journal last week that started this way: Barring soldiers from carrying concealed weapons at Fort Hood Army base in Texas demeans the soldiers and ignores reality. It also gets people killed. In 2009 and...
CPRC in the Chicago Tribune on gun-free zones at military bases
John Lott's op-ed on gun-free zones at military bases at the Chicago Tribune starts this way: What stops a mass public shooting is a person with a gun. Frequently it isn't even necessary to fire the gun. But the length of time between when an attack starts and when...
CPRC in the news at Fox News: “After Fort Hood: Should soldiers be allowed to bear arms on base?”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: In debates on gun control, gun opponents usually speculate about what might go wrong. Unfortunately, the current debate over arming soldiers on military bases is no different. Except for the military police,...
Media Matters, TPM, and others mislead over CPRC’s interview on MSNBC: Gun-free zones on military bases
It is quite flattering that any time Media Matters and TPM spent so much real estate going after me. Media Matters' post was at the top of their front page from late morning on Friday until at least midnight (my last check). [UPDATE: As of 6:30 AM on Monday, April...
CPRC making a difference in the debate over the Fort Hood Mass Public Shooting
John Lott's op-ed on the shooting at Fox News starts this way: The Obama administration hasn’t learned anything from the massacres at Fort Hood in 2009 or the Washington Navy Yard last year. For all my research on how to stop or prevent mass public shootings and all...
A personal note about the Ft Hood shooting today: When family are near the attack
Personal note from John Lott: With all the people who I have talked to who have been present at mass public shootings over the 16 years since I first wrote about gun-free zones in the Wall Street Journal, this attack at Fort Hood was different: my second oldest son,...
Errors in Piers Morgan last speech on guns at the end of his show on CNN
Below is the relevant text of Piers Morgan's comments. Here a few comments. 1) Doesn't Piers recognize the irony that the Aurora movie theater and Newtown shootings both occurred where guns are banned? That the movie theater shooting occurred in the one movie theater...
CPRC on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America to discuss bans on guns at military bases and at NFL stadiums
CPRC's John Lott was interviewed on Bill Bennett's Morning in America show to discuss the ban on soldiers being able to carry guns on military bases and police officers being able to at NFL games. The audio of the interview is available here (March 28, 2014 from 7:06...
Idaho becomes 9th state to mandate that people with permitted concealed handguns can have guns on college campuses
Idaho now joins seven other states that to varying degrees allow permitted concealed handguns on college campuses. As I note below, if you include Pennsylvania, it is probably more correct to say that Idaho becomes the ninth state. On March 12th, Idaho governor Butch...
CPRC’s new op-ed piece in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review: “No more sitting ducks — we must arm our soldiers on their bases”
John Lott's newest piece was the featured commentary in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review's Sunday opinion section and it starts this way: Can mass shootings be stopped or prevented? The Obama administration's political views prevent it from even considering certain...