Media Discussion on CPRC

In a case where a concealed handgun permit holder in Michigan may have used excessive force with her permitted concealed handgun to stop a shoplifter, the New York Times references the CPRC's John Lott. John Lott, an economist, author and prominent advocate of...

John Lott testified before the Michigan state Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 3 PM. MLive.com had this: His comments were echoed by John Lott, author of "More Guns, Less Crime," a book that has become a central document for gun rights...

Washington Post, October 8, 2015 But pro-gun-rights economist John Lott Jr. wrote in his 2003 book, "The Bias Against Guns," that states with conceal-and-carry laws did have lower firearm murder and injury rates. He's also argued that guns can be a powerful deterrent:...

October 5, 2015 Even if Clinton's proposals were implemented, writes Fox News' John R. Lott, they wouldn't have stopped the Umpqua attack last week, nor the mass public shootings throughout Obama's presidency. Lott argues that government databases used for background...

From the New York Daily News: John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, pointed to the fact that none of the security guards at the college were armed, hinting the attack could have been stopped in its tracks if they had weapons. He made a...

The piece on the front page of the El Paso Times discusses John Lott's talk in El Paso this coming Saturday morning. . . . Lott, an author, professor, commentator and Fox News columnist, is founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center, an organization that focuses...

Here are some other pieces that mention our research. Charlotte Observer, NC (September 2, 2015): . . . As Crime Prevention Research Center director John Lott notes, with only two exceptions, all of the mass shootings in the U.S. since 1958 have occurred in the...

From Adam Summers, a columnist for the Orange County Register (September 16): . . . One of the primary ways gun laws in much of the country have been loosened is through the easing of restrictions on carrying a concealed weapon. A number of states no longer require a...

The article from the Washington Times contains this (September 15, 2015): . . . The 2016 GOP field is among the most staunchly pro-gun of any in recent political history, but there are still divisions among the hopefuls, analysts and gun rights advocates say. The...

We don't usually keep track of the local media coverage the CPRC receives or even all the national coverage, but here are some examples of the type of media coverage that the CPRC has received over the past month.  Of course, John Stossel's recent column on the CPRC...