John Lott's newest piece at the Chicago Tribune starts this way: Over the weekend Somali terrorists threatened to attack the Mall of America in Minnesota. They called for a massacre similar to the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed and...
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CPRC at Fox News discussing “Microstamping” shell casings
From "Gun rights groups await judge's ruling on California's 'microstamping' law" by reporter Malia Zimmerman at Fox News: California's gun laws are among the nation's strictest, but a looming decision in a federal lawsuit could effectively ban handguns altogether in...
CPRC at Fox News: “Let’s not be so quick to believe gun-control rhetoric”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News on the New York Times reporting the latest Violence Policy Center claims starts this way: People walking the streets with guns pose a danger to others, right? With 12 million Americans across all 50 states now having concealed...
CPRC in the Christian Science Monitor and Yahoo News and other places
This is from Patrik Jonsson's article that originally appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and Yahoo News: Others, however, including John Lott, author of “More Guns, Less Crime,” have found the opposite – that the addition of 6 million concealed-carry permits...
Iowa’s concealed handgun permits soar 450 percent since 2010, CPRC in the news at Fox News
From an article at Fox News: In 2010, Iowa's numbers were just shy of 40,000, but according to data from the Iowa Department of Public Safety, last year the number crested 220,000. In 2011 alone, the number of permits issued in the state more than doubled. Nationally,...
CPRC in the New York Daily News: Rates that police kill black and white teenagers
From the New York Daily News: Black male teenagers are killed by police 2.3 times as often as whites, John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, found. . . . While the 2.3 times number is much more accurate than the claims put forward by Slate...
The impact of the CPRC: Our research being used in debates over gun control
North Dakota's House Judiciary Committee held a hearing this week on bill that "would allow elected officials with a valid concealed carry permit to carry a firearm in public buildings." From the Bismarck Tribune (North Dakota) discussing the debate over the bill: . ....
Counties around Portland, Oregon experience explosive 41% or more growth in concealed handgun permits from 2011 to 2014
Portland's GoLocalPDX has a lead news story on the growth of concealed carry permits in the Portland area. Not enough information is presented in the article to determine the permit growth rate for all three counties, but Multnomah and Washington counties had a 41...
CPRC in the New York Times: Are people carrying permitted concealed handguns into airports really significant?
The Sunday New York Times piece by Kate Murphy has this: . . . The Crime Prevention Research Center used public records to count 12 million Americans with concealed-carry permits. It’s probably a low estimate as numbers are not available for all states that issue...
Tragedy of Idaho permit holder illustrates lopsidedness of news coverage on guns, CPRC gets extensive news coverage over number of concealed handgun permits in Idaho
The horrible tragic death of Veronica J. Rutledge in Idaho obtained massive national news coverage. The 29-year-old mother was accidentally shot to death when her two-year-old reached into her handbag and fired her handgun. The news coverage generally provided little...
CPRC in the news on concealed handgun laws in Louisiana
The Times-Picayune discusses the Louisiana's concealed handgun law: A study by Crime Prevention Research Center, a gun-carrying advocacy site, looked at permit data from 2007-2013. It showed for each 1 percentage point increase in the adult population holding permits...
Explaining why the risks of lead poisoning from shooting guns is greatly exaggerated
This quote is part of a long piece that Thinkprogress.org had on the risks of lead poisoning. . . . John R. Lott is founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a tax-exempt organization that works to “advance the scientific understanding of the...