USA Today, May 4, 2018 Fox News columnist John Lott said the "news media love to criticize hypocrisy — at least by conservatives — even when it doesn’t exist." "Protecting the president and vice president of the United States from assassination is not the same as...
Mike Pesca with Slate mentions President Trump using CPRC's research on mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones. An explanation for why Pesca and others are wrong in questioning the CPRC numbers is available here. May 4, 2018
Townhall, April 28, 2018 But a study of global mass-shooting incidents from 2009 to 2015 by the Crime Prevention Research Center, headed by economist John Lott, shows the U.S. doesn't lead the world in mass shootings. In fact, it doesn't even make the top 10, when...
Should teachers and staff at schools be armed? John Stossel and producer Maxim Lott made a video analyzing that question, and used CPRC research to do so. More information on concealed handguns at schools is available here. There are a couple of nitpicking points to...
Dr. John Lott was interviewed by the Associated Press about a case that was clearly not protected by the state's Stand Your Ground law. No reasonable person would have felt threatened by the criminal once he was lying unconscious on the floor. Here is part of the...
Fox News interviewed Dr. John Lott for a news article that they ran on the top-rated states for the gun industry. Red Alabama is the best state for the firearms industry when it comes to factors such as jobs and gun culture, while blue Rhode Island is the worst,...
You wouldn't think it after last weekend's "March for Our Lives," but it wasn't that long ago that thousands of high schoolers were walking around with guns. From the New York Post article, "When toting guns in high school was cool": “Even in New York City, virtually...
Voice of America, March 16, 2018 Though the NRA has come on board, other gun rights advocates say treatment, not gun seizure, is the answer to dealing with gun owners who show signs of trouble. "If you really believe somebody is a danger to themselves or others, then...
Mark Levin read our latest op-ed from Fox News on his national radio show. The op-ed discussed what impact that Omnibus-spending bill would have on gun control, and it was titled "The Second Amendment rights of more than 4 million Americans are at risk thanks to...
On his national radio show, Mark Levin mentions the CPRC research universal background checks wouldn't have stopped one of the mass public shootings this century. (Wednesday, March 14, 2018, from 7:20 to 7:22 PM) Mark Levin’s show is listened to by over 7 million...
Fox News has a new article on our research on the impact that raising the age that people can buy guns on mass public shootings. The article starts this way: As high school students staged a national walkout, gun control advocates have called for laws raising the age...
Antonia Okafor mentions Crime Prevention Research Center on Mass Public Shooting around the World. February 16, 2018, 5:30 to 5:31 AM https://crimeresearch.org/2018/02/with-39-killed-in-tunisia-attack-the-top-three-mass-public-shootings-are-outside-the-united-states/...