The Department of Defense report on the September 16th, 2013 Navy Yard shooting focuses on Aaron Alexis' mental health issues not being discovered before the attack: At various points during Alexis’ military service and subsequent employment as a cleared contractor —...
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CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “The Police Should Carry Guns Off The Job To Protect Us”
The piece by John Lott at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: Unbelievably, some won't even let police officers work for free. They object to them carrying guns when off-duty. Gun-control advocates are so extremely fearful of guns, the NFL has banned off-duty...
CPRC interview about NFL Gun Ban on Off-Duty Police carry guns inside stadiums
Daniel J. Flynn's interview with John Lott at Breitbart Sports starts this way: An expert scholar on mass shootings labels the NFL’s edict banning off-duty cops from carrying weapons inside stadiums “completely crazy” and suggests the league may be unnecessarily...
Evaluating Arguments in New York Times opposing permitted concealed handguns at universities
An op-ed in the New York Times last Friday by Greg Hampikian (February 27), a biology professor at Boise State University, raised the standard fears about letting permitted concealed handguns on college campuses. I have had encounters with disgruntled students over...
Media Bias on guns: Interview on Jim Bohannon Show discussing Bloomberg, ABC News, and the media
The interview during the first hour of the Jim Bohannon Radio Show is available here (10:05 to 11:00 PM EST, Tuesday, February 18, 2014). For the original pieces that generated the discussion see here: • Errors with Bloomberg on school gun shooting stats • Errors with...
CPRC on Coast-to-Coast AM for 2 hours (Audio)
CPRC was on George Noory's radio show last night for the first two hours of the show (3.25 million weekly listeners). Among the topics: the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals case striking down California's concealed handgun law, the big push to scare Americans into not...
Gun control advocate caught carrying permitted concealed handgun at school and supporters make argument that concealed carry permit holders make places safer
Dwayne Ferguson has been an active, well-known public supporter of gun control efforts for many years. He helped pass New York's new gun control laws last year. But he was recently arrested for accidentally carrying his permitted concealed handgun on school property....
CPRC debates Paul Helmke at East Carolina University over conceal handguns on college campuses
A short video of the debate from News Channel 12 is available here: More on the debate is available from the East Carolina University school newspaper. Amazingly, the debate received news coverage at least as far away as Montana. From WSLS TV: East Carolina University...
CPRC at National Review Online: “The Cruelty of Gun-Free Zones”
The piece at National Review starts off this way: Tuesday night, President Obama vowed to “help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters and our shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.” But before he continues pushing his typical...
Maryland Mall Shooting at yet another gun free zone
The Mall in Columbia was clearly yet another gun free zone. (Click on figure to make it larger.) Of course, just as important, it is essentially impossible for your average citizen in Maryland to obtain a concealed handgun permit. Permits are issued to ex-cops and a...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: On why gun control is becoming even more impossible to impose
The op-ed piece in the Inquirer starts this way: The new year has brought yet more gun-control regulations. President Obama announced new executive orders on background checks. Connecticut citizens stood in long lines to register their guns, and, next door in New York...
CPRC on the Geraldo Rivera Radio Show debating gun control with Alan Dershowitz
John Lott debated Alan Dershowitz on the Geraldo Rivera Radio Show on Tuesday, December 17th at 10:05 AM. The audio of the gun part of the debate is available here.