Breitbart.com, June 15, 2017 Congressmen Louie Gohmert (R-TX) noted Dr. John Lott's work in an interview that he did on SiriusXM radio. “We cannot allow Washington D.C. to continue to be a place where only the criminals and the police have guns. That needs to change....
Dr. John Lott was among the people interviewed by the PoliZette about the latest anti-self-defense editorial by the New York Times. Their editorial was responding to President Trump’s Tweet: “Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they...
Fox News Insider, May 30, 2017 On "Varney & Co." today, Dana Loesch said the number of concealed carry permits has risen dramatically in the past year, and women have been leading the charge. Women like having that equalizer, she said, and to be able to...
CPRC's research is covered extensively in a new Fox News story. The number of concealed carry permits in the United States has topped 15 million over the last year, according to data collected by the Crime Prevention Research Center. That’s the largest one-year...
Townhall, April 27, 2017 As gun scholar John R. Lott Jr. notes, “Letting teachers and staff carry concealed handguns is nothing new in the United States. And there has been good reason for allowing it -- police virtually always arrive after an attack has occurred....
Breitbart (May 10, 2017) had a long discussion on our recent research about the geographic concentration of murders in the US. A study conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows that U.S. counties with the highest murder rates are among those with...
A news article at Fox News discusses our research on blacks and women getting concealed handgun permits. Firearms instructors are reporting an increase in the number of black women learning how to use guns in self-defense courses around the country -- and the reasons...
Fox News had a top of the front web page discussion on our new research on murders overwhelmingly taking place in just a tiny part of the US. Many other publications from the Washington Times, Yahoo Finance, One News Now, and others ran similar stories. Here is the...
The Daily Caller, April 17, 2017; Daily Signal, April 18, 2017; News Max, April 18, 2017 “I expect murders to fall,” Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott told TheDCNF. “How they fall is a different question. The people who generally obeyed the ban...
The Wall Street Journal ran a lead letter that extensively discussed the Crime Prevention Research Center's work. The letter appeared as follows: Regarding James P. O’Neill and Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s “Don’t Mess With New York’s Gun Laws” (op-ed, March 24): The authors...
Aviation Pros, March 9, 2017 (Helping the media putting numbers in perspective by providing the total number of concealed handgun permit holders.) Gun discoveries at the nation's airports jumped 28 percent between 2015 and last year when 3,391 firearms made it to...
Ted Nugent has an op-ed in Newsweek on the 4th Circuit's decision on Maryland's Assault Weapon ban where he discusses CPRC's research. The statistics from every crime study known to man, including the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program and Dr. John Lott’s exhaustive...