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...
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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...
CPRC at Fox News: “‘Covering Guns’: Columbia University’s ‘workshop’ for journalists far from objective”
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...
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...