More detailed information on the numbers used by Bret Baier on Fox News are available here, here, and here. Peter Docey did make one mistake in discussing our research. We were not subtracting off terrorist attacks from the totals.
Media Discussion on CPRC
John Stossel’s column takes on the claims that John Lott’s research has been “discredited”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, New Hampshire Union Leader, St. George (UT) Spectrum, Townhall.com, Reason.com, Elko (Ca) Daily Free Press, Human Events, and many others. This week, my TV show is on gun control. I interviewed activist Leah Barrett, who wants...
CPRC in the Washington Post on Mass Shooting Tracker’s misleading methodology and claim of 355 mass shootings this year
John Lott's past concerns about Mass Shooting Tracker's methodology were aired by Christopher Ingraham in the Washington Post" Some observers, such as independent researcher and gun-rights proponent John Lott, object to the tracker's methodology, because it counts “a...
CPRC in the Washington Post on ” Fact Checker Obama’s inconsistent claim on the ‘frequency’ of mass shootings in the U.S. compared to other countries”
John Lott's work was quoted extensively in this article in the Washington Post by Michelle Lee. On Obama's claims about mass public shootings being unique to the US, the Post only gave him two Pinocchios. John R. Lott Jr., gun rights analyst who has tracked mass...
CPRC at Fox News discussing “Police union wants NFL to allow concealed carry at stadiums”
John Lott was interviewed by Fox News about whether the NFL should ban off-duty police from carrying their service weapons at games. “Off-duty police had been carrying their guns with them at NFL games from the time the NFL started until about a year-and-a-half ago,...
CPRC on Washington DC’s big WMAL to discuss DC Police Chief’s advice on civilians should actively take out mass public shooters
John Lott talked to Brian Wilson and Larry O'Connor about the DC Police Chief's advice on civilians should actively take out mass public shooters. Here is also an interesting interview that Brian Wilson and Larry O'Connor had with the head of the DC Police Officer...
Rush Limbaugh uses CPRC research on mass public shootings occurring in gun-free zones
On October 5, 2015 Rush Limbaugh mentioned some research that the CPRC had put together, though the source that he used doesn't acknowledge the research as coming from us. The source of Limbaugh's number is available in our report here where we go through each and...
CPRC research showing the claim that police are disproportionately shooting blacks was false was mentioned in CSPAN
This segment was shown on C-SPAN on November 15, 2015 at about 12:30 PM.
CPRC in the News around the Country: From Jacksonville to Houston to San Francisco
The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, Florida), Saturday, November 21, 2015 From the start, the controversy over Stand Your Ground laws has included discussions of race. Critics have said they favor white defendants who claim self-defense against black people. . . ....
Recent CPRC’s media coverage from around the country: Detroit Free Press, Daily Caller, Newser, Digital Journal
Digital Journal, November 12, 2015 Maryland lawmakers passed the ballistic-fingerprinting measure in 2000, and it was signed into law by then-Governor Parris N. Glendening (D) as a way for police to use shell casings found at crime scenes to find the gun that had...
CPRC research discussed by Ben Swann on CBS46-TV in Atlanta
In his report, Ben Swann on the local Fox affiliate in Atlanta, Georgia mentions the CPRC research on the number of permits issued as well as our work on how law-abiding permit holders are.
CPRC IN THE NEWS: WASHINGTON POST, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Raleigh’s WRAL, Pittsburgh’s WPXI TV, and Others
Washington Post, November 3, 2015 One big factor driving this trend? An explosion in the popularity of concealed-carry handgun permits. Data maintained by independent researcher and gun rights advocate John Lott suggests that the number of concealed carry permit...