Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post that starts this way: When will politicians finally recognize that they can’t protect all the possible shooting targets? Possibly the largest mass public shooting in US history occurred early on Sunday morning,...
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CPRC Board of Director David Clarke and President John Lott on Hannity on Fox News: Gun-free Zones and Other Gun Regulations
CPRC Board of Director David Clarke and President John Lott appeared on Fox News' Hannity to discuss gun-free zones and other gun regulations in the wake of the Orlando massacre. A picture after their appearance on the show with former New York City Police Department...
CPRC on The Mark Levin Show: Orlando Terror Attack, Gun-Free Zones & Gun Control
CPRC President, Dr. John Lott, talked with Mark Levin about the Orlando Mass Public Shooting & the dangers of gun-free zones. (Monday, June 13, 2016 from 7:20 to 7:44 PM) Levin: "you're encyclopedic memory on this stuff, you are really, really good." Mark Levin's...
CPRC Research in the Media about Gun-Free Zones
The Daily Caller, Monday, June 13, 2016 Another “new” lesson: Gun-free zones do not prevent attacks of this nature, and this past weekend in Florida proves it. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, both the Pulse and the location where former Voice...
UPDATED: Mass Public Shooting in Florida occurred in ANOTHER gun-free zone: 49 dead in a shooting at an Orlando nightclub
From the UK Daily Mail: The suspected Islamic extremist who killed about 50 people after taking party-goers hostage inside a gay club in Orlando has been identified. Law enforcement sources have identified the shooter, who was wielding an assault rifle and a handgun,...
Christina Grimmie killed in Gun-free zone
As the picture above shows, the man who fatally shot Christina Grimmie did so in a gun-free zone. Somehow, despite the ban on weapons, the killer, Kevin James Loibi, was able to get a large knife in addition to two handguns into the concert area. As one headline...
In the Bataclan theatre massacre in November 2015 there were eight off-duty police, but none of them had their guns with them
Interview with Eagles of Death Metal vocalist Jesse Hughes, who discussed the Bataclan attack in Paris that killed 89 of his fans. We had eight police officers in our audience that night. They all had the same conversation with their wives, which was “Should I bring...
UPDATE: Tennessee legislature makes major moves to get rid of gun-free zones at public universities and businesses
By overwhelming votes, the Tennessee legislature passed three bills that get rid of gun-free zones at public universities and provides immunity to businesses if they don't post ban. CPRC's John Lott testified on all three bills when they started in the state Senate...
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...
Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley says 8 minute response time in mass public shootings is “adequate” and “pretty quick,” opposes letting soldiers carry weapons on military bases
Here is a video clip of the Army chief of staff testifying on April 7th that it isn’t necessary to arm soldiers on military bases, such as Fort Hood attack, because: "We have adequate law enforcement on those bases to respond ... You take the Fort Hood incident number...
CPRC’s Nikki Goeser on KKNT 960 The Patriot “Gun Freedom Radio”: Discussion on her husband being murdered by her stalker in a gun-free zone
(March 19, 2016) Nikki Goeser, Director of Communications with The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), talks with Gun Freedom Radio about the non-profit organization and the work it does. Nikki discusses her own experience being in a gun-free zone that ultimately...
CPRC on The Ralph Bristol Show (Nashville, TN): No Guns Policy at Excel Industries in Kansas where Mass Shooting took place
Ralph Bristol interviews Dr. John Lott, President of Crime Prevention Research Center, about the Kansas factory mass shooting which occurred in a gun-free zone. February 29, 2016 (7:35am-7:42am)