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...
Our report on the gun-free zones in the District of Columbia has gotten a long front-page article in the Washington Times. The Washington Free Beacon and Fox News have also run a similar story. The article discusses DC response: "The law says it 'shall not apply to a...
Bradford Richardson at the Washington Times had a long article based on an interview that he had with Dr. John Lott (words in bold were not in the original article). The CPRC has made these points before. The article in the Washington Times is as follows: . . . In...
From the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, October 4, 2017. According to John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center, most mass shootings with 15 or more casualties since 1970 took place outside the U.S., including France and Norway that strictly regulate guns. . . ....
Fox News has a news story on our recent research showing that concealed handgun permit holders are less reckless drivers than others. Gun owners with concealed carry permits are less likely to drive recklessly than other drivers, according to an analysis released...
Much of this media coverage over the last week has been critical and distorted what Dr. Lott actually said during his testimony before President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (a video of the testimony is available here and a discussion of some of the...
Over the last few days, there have been a lot of attacks on Dr. Lott research after his testimony to the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity. One of the common lines of attack has been that he testified in an area where he is not an expert. The...