Fox News has a news article on a bet that Dr. John Lott offered twelve prominent pro-gun control academics. He wrote about this offer in The Federalist and in the piece he deals with the claims made below by a couple of the academics. A gun expert is asking academics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wokN5moqbgc "94 percent of public mass shooting occurred in a gun-free zone," Breitbart News's AWR Hawkins cites a study by the Crime Prevention Research Center. AWR Hawkins, "America Has a Gun-Free-Zone Problem," Breitbart News, May 6,...
Lott's IMDB contains a very partial list of his media appearances here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFnpSsJ0Iw Steve Crowder on his show "Louder with Crowder" referenced the Crime Prevention Research Center research on the rate of attacks on gun-free zones, the media completely ignoring the role of gun-free zones, the rate that armed...
The president of the Crime Research Prevention Center, John Lott, told the Sun that citizens who use firearms in self-defense are required under law to demonstrate reasonable fear for their lives. “Stand Your Ground laws require a reasonable person standard,”...
Finally, some news coverage on gun-free zones. The question we have continually been asking: "Why isn’t it newsworthy that time after time these mass murderers pick targets where their victims are defenseless?" . The tragic shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky,...
. . . Despite oodles of data showing that defensive gun uses (DGUs) occur quite frequently, the gun control crowd insists on deceptively claiming that these situations rarely arise, which means people should not have the right to keep and bear arms. But John Lott,...
The CPRC has analyzed how the number of felonies has changed over time in the Manhattan Borough of New York City. Since Alvin Bragg became the borough District Attorney, the number of felonies has surged by 26%. Newsweek has a very lengthy article that discusses our...
Feedspot ranks "the best Crime blogs from thousands of blogs on the web and ranked by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness." The CPRC ranks 3rd, ahead of the coverage of crime in the New York Post, Los Angeles, Dallas Morning...
The Washington Times has a long article on our research on the FBI Active Shooting reports missing cases where civilians stop attacks (see also here). This was also picked up in the Daily Journal on March 26, 2023. The article is as follows: Mercedes Perez crashed her...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AYqQBnB_0s The local Fox station in DC picked up the story from its coverage by Fox News. Murders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concentrated in densely populated urban centers in just a handful of counties, according to a newly...
While most of the testimony presented Thursday was in favor of the 11-bill package, Nikki Goeser spoke out again the addition of new laws. Goeser’s husband was shot and killed in front of her in April 2009. “There are currently involuntary commitment laws that already...