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...
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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...
CPRC at Fox News: Why Michael Bloomberg’s latest push for gun control is all wrong
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Michael Bloomberg is spending tens of millions of dollars trying to convince state legislatures to support restrictive gun control laws. From television and newspaper ads, to blanketing communities with flyers, to...
CPRC at Fox News: “Is gun ownership really down in America?”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News: Is gun ownership falling? The answer is yes, at least if you believe a new General Social Survey (GSS) by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). Supposedly, since the late 1970s, the percentage of homes with a gun has fallen...
CPRC at Fox News: “Rare Victory: Obama administration temporarily drops ammo ban proposal”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: If President Obama can’t have his way with banning guns, it looks like his next option is to ban the bullets used by those guns. Too often, Obama has shown little regard for the law. He does what he wants. If...
CPRC in the New York Post: “Ferguson fake out: Justice Department’s bogus report”
John Lott's piece in the New York Post starts this way (for those interested in reading the original DOJ report on Ferguson it is available here): Addressing the nation from Selma, Ala., on Saturday, President Obama said that while racism may be “no longer endemic,”...