John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Have you ever thought of letting someone else manage your finances? If President Obama has his way, Social Security recipients who have trouble managing their finances will be banned from buying a gun. If Social...
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CPRC at Fox News: “Chattanooga shootings: Why should we make it easy for killers to attack our military?”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: Thursday saw yet another tragic attack in a gun-free zone. Four Marines were murdered. Others were injured. Watching the coverage on television Thursday, it was hard to ignore the gun-free zone sign on the front...
CPRC at the Daily Caller: “Why Background Checks Couldn’t Stop Dylan Roof”
John Lott's latest piece at the Daily Caller discusses the FBI's announcement that mistakes were made in the background check for his gun purchase. His piece starts this way: The FBI says that the federal background check system for guns should have stopped Dylann...
CPRC at Fox News: “Lynne Russell, ex-CNN anchor, and her husband are alive thanks to a gun”
John Lott has a new piece at Fox News on Lynne Russell and her husband defending themselves with a gun. Lynne Russell and her husband, Chuck de Caro, believe they would be dead if she hadn’t been carrying a gun. Late Wednesday night, Russell was forced at gunpoint...
CPRC debating the Brady Campaign on the best way to prevent mass public shootings
John Lott's piece at the PanAmPost starts this way: With just two exceptions, since at least 1950, all the mass public shootings in the United States have occurred in so-called gun-free zones, places where citizens can’t have guns for protection. Gun-free zones are...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “Obama Uses Tragic Murders, False Claims To Bash Gun Rights”
John Lott has a new piece at Investor's Business Daily: President Obama just can't help making false claims about guns. On Friday, during his eulogy in Charleston, S.C., for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Obama spent four minutes pushing his agenda for gun control. But from...
CPRC in the New York Daily News: “The myth of American gun violence”
John Lott's piece at the New York Daily News starts this way: In the wake of the murders in Charleston, President Obama has made more exaggerations and false claims about gun violence in America. He made two public addresses this past week — one to the nation on...
CPRC at Fox News: “Gun-free zones an easy target for killers”
John Lott has a new op-ed at Fox News on the The horrible tragedy last night that left nine people dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., probably could have been avoided. Like so many other attacks, the massacre took place in a...
CPRC at Fox News: “Connecticut’s strict gun licensing law linked to steep drop in homicides? Not really”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: A new study in the American Journal of Public Health claims that the state of Connecticut’s 1995 gun licensing law has reduced firearm homicide rates by 40 percent. But this just released study gives academics a...
CPRC at Fox News: “There is no nationwide crime wave (and police killings are not up)”
From John Lott's newest piece at Fox News: Since 1991, murder and violent crime have plummeted in the U. S. But in a widely discussed op-ed in the Wall Street Journal titled "The New Nationwide Crime Wave,” Heather Mac Donald recently made a startling claim: “Gun...
CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: “Chancellor Fires Blanks At Texas College Campus Carry Law”
UPDATE: Governor Abbott explains why he will sign the Campus Carry bill that passed the state legislature. These remarks were made on the Mark Davis Show on KSKY-AM. Original Post: John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily is part of a debate on this...
Greg Gutfeld & Eric Boiling Use CPRC Research to Discuss the “Media’s uninformed backlash against Vince Vaughn”
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Here is also a transcript of Gutfeld's remarks. One will note that Greg Gutfeld's points parallel the evidence that we had put together on Vince Vaughn's comments. John Lott also has a new op-ed at Fox News on the Vince...
