John Lott's piece at Fox News starts this way: Columbia University would never sponsor an event funded by the National Rifle Association. What’s more, the idea would seem especially outlandish if most of the speakers at the event were NRA supporters. Yet, gun control...
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CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: “Twisting statistics to smear cops”
John Lott's latest piece at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review starts this way: False claims about police brutality are poisoning race relations. This feeling of “unfairness,” as President Obama noted in his weekly address on May 16, is “fuel(ing) the kind of unrest that...
CPRC at Fox News: “Where’s the coverage of heroes who stop mass killings?”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Heroic citizens stopping someone from killing a large number of people don’t seem to be considered news worthy. Don’t people want to read about a brave soul risking his life by running towards the sound of gunfire...
CPRC in the New York Daily News: “Hillary Clinton’s dishonest crime dodge”
John Lott's newest piece at the New York Daily News starts this way: It is easy to forget that, in 1991, the U.S. murder rate was well over twice what it is today. In a speech last week at Columbia University, Hillary Clinton demonstrated she doesn’t understand that...
CPRC at Investors Business Daily: The same people who want to disarm police also want to disarm poor blacks
John Lott's newest piece at Investors Business Daily: Police aren't always there to protect people — not in Baltimore, not in Ferguson and not when the average person has to confront a criminal. This is particularly true in the poorest sections of town. Even police...
Correcting the record on David Hemenway’s claim that academics support gun control
David Hemenway wrote an op-ed that was originally published in the Los Angeles Times and then picked up in many other newspapers. The Los Angeles Times was unwilling to publish a letter that the CPRC sent in, but the Wisconsin State Journal did publish the letter in...
CPRC at Fox News: “Baltimore riots and the price of protest”
John Lott's latest piece at Fox News starts this way: People have the right to protest, but too many politicians are afraid or unwilling to stop looting and rioting. The dividing line between liberals and conservatives could hardly be starker. When the St. Louis...
CPRC at Fox News: Gun control advocates taking a page out of global warming advocates’ handbook
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Gun control advocates this month took a page from the global warming activists playbook: the science is settled, so there is no need for debate. However, instead of actually reviewing the scientific literature on...
CPRC in the Nashville Tennessean: Poor people suffer at anti-gun bill elitism
This letter appeared in the April 7th edition of the Nashville Tennessean Poor people suffer at anti-gun bill elitism Re: “Shame of Senate: Guns for all but no time for people,” by Keel Hunt, April 5. Keel Hunt claims that the Republican legislature in Nashville only...
CPRC at Fox News: “French Alps crash shows psychiatrists cannot be last line of defense”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: There has been a lot of second-guessing about Andreas Lubitz, the Germanwings co-pilot who deliberately crashed his plane into the French Alps, killing himself and 149 others. If only Lufthansa had regular mental...
CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: Ferguson Justice Department Report Misleads On Racism
John Lott has expanded his previous discussion in the New York Post with some additional data that he didn't have room for in that piece. Most seem to accept the Obama administration's claim that the Ferguson police department is a hotbed of racism. As President Obama...
CPRC in the Pittsburgh Tribune: “Obama’s backdoor ban”
Eric Heyl with the Pittsburgh Tribune conducted this interview with us: John R. Lott Jr. is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, . . . [an] organization that examines the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns and crime and...