"The Crime Prevention Research Center reports that at least 20 states have allowed citizens to carry firearms in the capitols for some time. Some states allow open carry of firearms by citizens even if they do not have a permit, such as Kentucky. Others may...
Media Discussion on CPRC
KGVO: Election Integrity Lawsuit filed against Missoula County Office
KGVO-AM radio in Missoula had this story. . The Missoula County Election Integrity Project and John Lott, Ph.D. have filed a lawsuit in Missoula District Court against the Missoula County Elections Office and Bradley Seaman in his official capacity as Elections...
CPRC in the News: The Chicago Sun-Times, The Hill, The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner, The Buffalo News, and more
Unfortunately, The Hill and other media outlets ignored the response that Dr. John Lott texted back to the governor's attack. In a tweet on Tuesday, the NRA cited recent research from the nonprofit Crime Prevention Research Center, which found that “Since...
Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin mention Crime Prevention Research Center research that shows that the US is not unique in terms of mass public shootings on their radio shows
Ben Shapiro read from a piece that Dr. John Lott had in Newsweek titled "Democrats’ Focus On ‘Gun Control’ Won’t Solve Any of Our Problems." Since 1998, there have been a total of nine attacks similar to the Robb Elementary School shooting. Nine is nine too many. But...
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight Uses Our Wall Street Journal Op-ed on Brazil’s drop in crime as the basis for Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JpKG8PODdg4 Tucker Carlson interviews Eduardo Bolsonaro, adviser to his father, President Jair Bolsonaro, about Brazil's gun policies on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.' The numbers and discussion in the interview are clearly...
Crime Prevention Research Center’s research mentioned on Fox’s The Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DX7Lc_Tysg Judge Jeanine Pirro mentioned the Crime Prevention Research Center's research once directly and implicitly relied on the CPRC's research at other times (see at 1:24 into her discussion). The data on law-abiding permit...
Fox News extensively quotes CPRC: States with higher rate of gun ownership do not correlate with more gun murders, data show
Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm is on the CPRC's board of academic advisors and Dr. John Lott is the president. Fox did shorten some of Lott's quote where he said that he would look at many different places over time and compare the changes in crime rates in those places...
Congressman Thomas Massie mentions Nikki Goeser in a House Floor debate on the Six Democrat Gun Control Bills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=720h2NgiVec Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), who is co-chair of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus, gave the opening opposition House floor speech against the Democrats' new gun control bills. During the speech, he talked about...
CPRC discussed extensively at Fox News: Proposed gun control measures lack empirical evidence they reduce crimes, experts say
A new Fox News article has extensive quotes from Dr. John Lott and also CPRC Academic Advisory Board member Joyce Lee Malcolm. Here are the parts of the very long piece that provide Lott's reaction to the new gun control proposals. Calls for gun control have echoed...
CPRC in the News: Yahoo! News, Washington Post, The Volokh Conspiracy, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Townhall, and much more
You can see the list from the Crime Prevention Research Center; it goes back more than a year, but I counted the incidents just since June 4, 2021. The list is supported by links to media coverage of each incident, so you needn't trust and can instead...
Congressman Thomas Massie reads parts of his op-ed with Nikki Goeser on Red Flag Laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ljvX0j6qo The Crime Prevention Research Center's Nikki Goeser and Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), who is co-chair of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus, wrote a piece for Real Clear Politics on the dangers of Red Flag laws....
Congressman Thomas Massie cites CPRC work during the House Judiciary Committee markup
https://rumble.com/embed/v14lvun/?pub=vzmga Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) cites CPRC work during a Thursday House Judiciary Committee markup on H.R. 7910 the "Protecting Our Kids Act." He introduces a list of compiling cases CPRC put together, in which "good people...











