NBC News, October , 2016; WRCB TV (Chattanooga, TN), October 26, 2016; Inland News Today (Riverside, CA), October 26, 2016 If anyone has a bone to pick with the Johns Hopkins report, it is John Lott. He is an economist and author of "The War on Guns: Arming Yourself...
Media Discussion on CPRC
CPRC in the New York Times: Commenting on “Report Highlights How Guns Flow Into New York From States With Weaker Laws”
The CPRC provided a little bit of balance in an article on the release of a new gun tracing report by the New York Attorney General. . . . But John R. Lott Jr., the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center in Pennsylvania, disagreed. “That’s like finding out...
Garland County, Arkansas uses CPRC research to let employees bring permitted concealed handguns to work
County employees in Garland County, Arkansas will now be able to carry permitted concealed handguns at work. From the Sentinel-Record: Justices of the peace defeated repeated motions Monday night to give the Garland County Employee Concealed Carry Plan more...
CPRC in the News: Washington Times (2), Breitbart (3), Sacramento Bee, New Hampshire Political Buzz, Outdoor Life, America’s 1st Freedom, and other places
Washington Times, Tuesday, October 3, 2016 During Mr. Obama’s presidency the number of people with concealed carry permits has increased from about 6 million to nearly 15 million. More than 6 percent of all adults in the U.S. now have a permit to carry a concealed...
CPRC in the News: Philadelphia Inquirer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Orlando Sentinel, Richmond Times-Dispatch, The New Republic, and Many more
New Republic, September 7, 2016 With every syllabus and core curriculum, faculty and administrators have to decide what material to include and what to leave out. Similarly, there is no objective, apolitical list of visiting speakers. To the extent that conservatives,...
CPRC in the News: Daily Caller, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, PoliZette, CNSNews.com, and others
Midland (Texas) Daily News, September 2, 2016 A study by the Crime Prevention Research Center noted that concealed-carry permits have boomed nationally, but particularly among women and minorities. “In eight states where we have data by gender, since 2012 the number...
More Details on Michael Bloomberg’s demand that John Lott be excluded from Katie Couric’s movie “Under the Gun”
From America's 1st Freedom on September 5th: Shouldn’t journalists who want to tackle the issues related to illegal use of guns in America, and thereby help us find real solutions to violent crime in places like Chicago’s South Side, start by being honest? John Lott...
CPRC in the News: The National Interest, New China, The Daily Signal and others
New China, August 30, 2016 In an interview with Xinhua, John R. Lott, Jr., Crime Prevention Research Center founder and president, suggested that gun restriction is not the way to stop gun violence. Considered one of the nation's top opponents to restrictions on...
Breitbart: “Claim: Michael Bloomberg Demanded John Lott Interview Cut from Couric Gun Control Film”
This how the article at Breitbart starts: Radio host John Cardillo claims that interview segments with noted gun scholar John Lott were included in the earliest version of Katie Couric’s gun control movie Under the Gun, but were taken out at Michael Bloomberg’s...
CPRC report on permitted concealed handguns makes the Pittsburgh Tribune Reviews’ front page, other papers as well
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review front page headline: "Demand high in Pa. to carry concealed guns." Demand for gun ownership in America continues to climb. The nation's 14 million concealed-carry permit holders marks an all-time high, with women snapping up concealed...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, KCET, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Townhall, PJ Media, and many others
New York Post, August 10, 2016 Criminologist: Why Hillary Refuses Police Union Backing “Democrats have drifted so far left, they now stand at odds with the country’s largest police union,” writes John Lott at National Review. He takes note of the little-reported story...
The Oklahoman Editorial Board extensively discusses the new CPRC report on Concealed Handgun Permits, other media also covering our report
The Oklahoman Editorial Board, Sunday, August 14, 2016 DUE in part to recent mass shootings, Democrats have begun to embrace gun control again. The Hill, a newspaper covering Congress, noted that this amounts to Democrats “betting that a shift in voter sentiment has...