Fox News interviewed Dr. John Lott extensively regarding an exchange between Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan Ranney. . Democrats have long claimed red states are more dangerous than blue states . A Republican senator and Yale...
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At Fox News: Decline in new gun permits doesn’t tell whole story about how many Americans carry: expert
Fox News has a news story about our latest annual concealed carry permit report. FIRST ON FOX: The number of concealed carry permit holders in the U.S. dropped slightly this year, but the number of Americans carrying a concealed firearm has likely increased overall...
The CPRC ranked as the Third Best Crime Blog
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CPRC in the News: The New York Sun, Red State, Bearing Arms, American Liberty, and more
The president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, a Montana-based pro Second Amendment think tank, John Lott, tells the Sun that Ms. Luhan Grisham’s rationale for her order centers on a handful of recent road rage incidents in the state. There is, however, no...
Fox & Friends Discusses the CPRC Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30s81QMbh2s The CPRC's research got attention on Fox News' Fox & Friends. They were referencing work we had at Real Clear Investigations titled: "There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders in America. Here’s Why You Rarely...
CPRC’s Research on Errors in the FBI’s Active Shooting Reports Get Coverage: Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, and more
Former senior advisor for research and statistics for the U.S. Department of Justice, John R Lott Jr., claims the FBI has misreported how many armed citizens have stopped active shooters. Lott had the task of evaluating the FBI’s active shooting reports. He found the...
On Nashville’s WKRN-TV about Expanding Tennessee’s Lifetime Order of Protection, warning the TV station misleading uses Nikki Goeser’s answer to one question to answer another one
News media bias shows up in many ways. One way biases arise is by reporters using answers from one question for another. That happened in this case for our Nikki Goeser. Nikki was largely responsible for the idea behind the Lifetime Order of Protection. The interview...
Nikki Goeser at Press Conference at the Tennessee State Legislature’s Special Session on Gun Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FkZYKpuBOQ Tennessee Governor Bill Lee called for a special session for the legislature to consider gun control laws in response to the Covenant School shooting in Nashville in March 2023. The Crime Prevention Research Center's Nikki...
Babylon Bee Video relies heavily on the Crime Prevention Research Center’s Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyms4cNSbo The Babylon Bee relies on some discussions from the CPRC website. Some of their video is clearly taken directly from our video with John Stossel about mass public shootings in countries worldwide....
Our research is getting seriously discussed by politicians in South America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egYYtI1jHSQ This segment is from Willax TV on Sunday, August 6th. The guest was Fernando Rospigliosi (the Former Minister of Interior). Minister Rospigliosi's was referring to Dr. Lott's talk in Lima, Peru that is available here. Here...
Interview with Ecuador’s Expreso Newspaper: “US experts recommend arming the population to defend themselves against crime”
The CPRC's Kerry Slone and John Lott talked to two major newspapers in Ecuador. Here is a story that came out on August 9th from their interview with Espresso in Guayaquil, population 2.7 million US experts recommend arming the population to defend themselves against...
Dr. Lott’s Offer to Bet Other Academics on How Lula’s Gun Laws Will Impact Brazil’s Homicide Rate Gets Coverage in Brazil
Dr. John Lott's offer to bet academics on how Brazil's homicide rate will change with their new gun control laws has gotten some attention in Brazil. Less access to guns, less crime? American expert contests and provokes with betJohn Lott, an American gun expert,...