Deseret News, October 16, 2019 John Lott, founder and president of the Virginia-based Crime Prevention Research Center, told the committee red flag laws are not useful in preventing gun violence, including suicide. Only one of the 17 states that have such a law...
US News & World Report, September 17, 2019 Banning all guns, including concealed weapons, would affect a significantly higher number of people, says Dave Workman, communications director for the Second Amendment Foundation and a senior editor for the group's...
Fox News has a news story about our latest report on the number of concealed handgun permits continuing to grow: Even as the topic of gun control continues to remain a focus in the Democratic 2020 presidential primary, more Americans than ever are believed to have...
Apparently even great baseball players follow what we do here at the Crime Prevention Research Center. At the Gun Rights Policy Conference in Phoenix, Baseball Great Curt Schilling referenced Crime Prevention Research Center study in talk. (Saturday, September 21, 2019)
Newsweek, September 2, 2019 Former Texas congressman and 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke demanded Capitol Hill politicians enact stricter gun control laws rather than offer "thoughts and prayers" during an appearance on CNN's State of the Union on...
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Instagram announced the new Portuguese translation of Dr. John Lott's book, The War on Guns. We don't have a link to the Portuguese translation. The quote from the book goes as follows: "Possessing a weapon is undoubtedly the most...
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)