Dr. John Lott's talk in Mexico last fall was again given national news coverage in Mexico. Here is the translation provided by Twitter (you can see the original post here (it probably wouldn't hurt to encourage more of this coverage by retweeting their link)): Not...
WPTV NBC Channel 5 (West Palm Beach, Florida), August 23, 2019; WMYD (Detroit), August 23, 2019; KXXV ABC Channel 25 (Central Texas), August 23, 2019; KATC ABC Channel 3 (Lafayette, Louisiana), August 23, 2019; KXLF Channel 4 (Butte, Montana), August 23, 2019; KZTV...
The Mercury News (San Jose, California), Sunday, August 11, 2019; Los Angeles Daily News, Sunday, August 11, 2019; Orange County Register, Sunday, August 11, 2019; Daily Democrat (Woodland, California), Sunday, August 11, 2019; Riverside (California) Press...
MyNorthwest (Seattle, Washington), July 17, 2019 Gottlieb calls gun-free zones “counterproductive,” noting the vulnerability of people should a mass-shooting incident take place. He points to research from the conservative Crime Prevention Research Center, that...
When former Congressman Jason Lewis served as a substitute host for Rush Limbaugh he brought up how Twitter has locked John Lott's account. (Friday, July 5, 2019, First hour)
Breitbart, June 30, 2019 Democrat presidential hopeful Eric Swalwell claims his confiscatory “assault weapons” ban would have prevented the December 14, 2012, attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. He made this claim in response to a tweet by John Lott,...
George Parry, a former federal and state prosecutor, had a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 5th, where he relied heavily on our research. We have added notes below where the links that were provided were to the Crime Prevention Research Center, though even...
On June 5th, our research on mass public shootings got significant coverage by local news outlets throughout the United States. The news coverage starts this way: WASHINGTON (SBG) - Elected leaders on Capitol Hill were quick to respond with familiar calls for action...
Newsweek discusses the evidence put forward for eliminating gun-free zones at schools. . . . The "98 percent" statistic cited by Massie was pulled from a November 2018 Chicago Tribune op-ed by the conservative author of The War on Guns, John R. Lott Jr., who is also...
Daily Caller, May 15, 2019 Here’s a truth that every American should consider: There are at least 18 states that allow teachers to carry guns. And yet, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center, there has NEVER been a mass shooting attempted in any...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by Sinclair Broadcast Group about the Crime Prevention Research Center's count of mass public shootings across countries. Sinclair references Snopes.com's criticism of our work because we looked at the per capita rate of attacks across...
Our recent research on school shootings has gotten an extensive editorial write-up in nine newspapers across Florida. Palm Beach Daily News, May 30, 2019; Florida Times-Union, May 30, 2019; Daily Commercial, May 30, 2019; St. Augustine Record, May 30, 2019;...