Dr. John Lott and Professor Carl Moody, the CPRC's research director, have an op-ed at Townhall. Preface: Last Friday, the National Law Journal ran an op-ed by Lisa Vicens and John Donohue with many errors in it regarding a case that the U.S. Supreme Court...
"You rarely hear an instance where a CCL holder is using their firearm in an unlawful manner. They’re generally law-abiding citizens, and they’ve gone to great lengths to get to where they’re at to have a CCL. And they’ve taken training to get there. And most of them,...
Last December 5th, the New York Times had yet another editorial making false claims about guns. The information from the Violence Policy Center has been recycled over and over again every few months by them. We have written numerous letters to the editor...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed in the Detroit News on how incredibly law-abiding concealed handgun permit holders are. This piece looks at recent claims by public health researchers that those who have guns tend to drive more dangerously. The piece starts this way:...
Some public health researchers have attempted to link permitted concealed carry to aggressive or reckless driving. Before turning to two of the papers by public health researchers, let’s look at some of the data on driving behavior. Just as handgun permit holders...
"I have never had a conversation with you, chief, relative to you displaying that we are arresting an overwhelming amount of people, or even one person, who's committed a crime while carrying a CCW (permit,)," said Mike Crivello, president of the Milwaukee Police...
Dr. John Lott has his newest piece in The Hill newspaper on fake news in the media. It starts this way: Time-after-time, the New York Times and other publications have repeated the same false claim that concealed handgun permit holders are dangerous. This claim will...
The Wall Street Journal ran a lead letter that extensively discussed the Crime Prevention Research Center's work. The letter appeared as follows: Regarding James P. O’Neill and Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s “Don’t Mess With New York’s Gun Laws” (op-ed, March 24): The authors...
Dr. John Lott has another piece at National Review about the New York Times continuing to disseminate clear false claims by the New York Times (though this could just as well be written about other publications such as The Hill): For the fourth time in less than two...
Once again the New York Times is citing bogus data from the Violence Policy Center (VPC) (January 12, 2017). The grim truth is that concealed-carry permit holders are rarely involved in stopping crime. But people with permits have been responsible for more than 900...
Once again the New York Times is citing bogus data from the Violence Policy Center (VPC). But since 2007, concealed-carry permit holders have been responsible for at least 898 deaths not involving self-defense, according to the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety...
The New York Times continues its reliance on the Violence Policy Center's discussion about concealed handgun permit holders. since 2007, at least 763 people have been killed in 579 shootings that did not involve self-defense. The Times didn't take our letter to the...