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/...
The Hill, March 8, 2018 As has been the case with school shootings, American soldiers were sitting ducks in the defenseless killing fields known as “gun-free zones,” where criminals, but not the average citizen would be armed. In fact, the Crime Prevention Research...
Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) used the Crime Prevention Research Center's research on 98% of mass public shootings taking place in gun-free zones. (CNN, Friday, March 2, 2018, 7:44 to 7:48 PM) (Meet the Press, Sunday, March 2, 2016)
From an Investor's Business Daily editorial: . . . President Obama talked about it a lot, including in June of 2015, after a gunman shot nine people in a Charleston, North Carolina church: "Let's be clear: At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the...