Media Discussion on CPRC

From an article at Fox News, December 6, 2017.  You can see our research on this topic here and a long list of our publications here.

Congressmen Louie Gohmert gave a talk on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to discuss the false positive rate for NICS background checks.  Out of 73,000 initial denials in 2010, there were only 42 cases referred for prosecution and just 13 convictions....

Mike Weisser has a new column in the Huffington Post: If there is one name which creates anger and hostility within the gun violence prevention (GVP) community, it’s not Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association, it’s John Lott. His book, More Guns, Less...

Indianapolis Star, November 24, 2017 According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, 20 other states allow firearms on Statehouse grounds in some fashion. Most allow average citizens to bring their firearms into the Statehouse. Only two states specifically restrict...

An article by Russell Wangersky in 39 Canadian newspapers expressed concern about the dangers of Americans being able to carry permitted concealed handguns.  You get an idea of where he was coming from with this passage. “At least 20 other states allow firearms on...

Ken Stern has been doing a book tour for his new book “Republican Like Me: How I Left the Liberal Bubble and Learned to Love the Right."  While Stern says that he still supports all the "reasonable" gun control measures, he showed that he was still open to empirical...

Huffington Post, November 15, 2017 . . . I have been following a similar debate about guns which broke out more than 20 years ago, a.k.a. John Lott versus Everyone Else, and not only does the debate about the role of ‘armed citizens’ seem to be heating up again, given...

For those interested, here is our list of mass public shootings that have been stopped by concealed handgun permit holders.  Fox News has an article on permit holders stopping mass public shootings. “These killers say they target places where people normally don’t...

Mark Levin reads Dr. Lott's latest op-ed at Fox News about the Texas church shooting on his national radio show. Mark Levin: “You know John Lott is called on occasions like this because the guy is like the 'Rain Man' with statistics. And, unfortunately, given the...

Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Alabama), November 4, 2017 When it comes to the nation-wide arms race, Alabama is in the lead. A study completed by the Crime Prevention Research Center shows that the numbers of people in the country having concealed weapons permits...

Tucker Carlson interviewed Ken Stern, a former CEO for NPR and a Democrat, about his new book "Republican Like Me." Stern talked to experts in all sorts of areas, and the one person who he was nice enough to mention in this segment was Dr. John Lott.  Stern mentioned...

Metro News, October 13, 2017 But John Lott, president of the pro-Second Amendment Crime Prevention Research Center, says these statistics are a kind of feel-good data sets that should rely on a whole host of other information, like culture, demographics and...