CPRC president John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green have a new piece in the South Australian newspaper The Advertiser. Their piece starts this way: HOW can we get back to feeling safe about taking the kids to school, going about our work and meeting friends...
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CPRC in Investors’ Business Daily: “Do Blacks Really Feel Especially Distrustful Of Cops?”
CPRC's piece in Investors' Business Daily starts this way: With chants of "NYPD, KKK" and signs saying "Stop Racist Police Terror" up until days before Christmas, protesters in New York made it clear that they don't trust the police. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's...
CPRC at Fox News: “Why most Americans oppose more gun control”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: A new Pew Research Center survey finds that, for the first time in their surveys, the majority of Americans oppose more gun control. Gallup and CNN polls tell a similar story. Opposition to gun control has been...
CPRC at Fox News: “Expert: Blacks trust police more than whites do”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Do blacks trust police more than whites do? Given the anger over events in Ferguson and New York City, the very question seems absurd. But it is not. Behind the polls and demonstrations, there is evidence that...
CPRC in the Daily Caller: “When Security Fails, Gun Rights Are The Last Line Of Defense”
The newest piece by John Lott at the Daily Caller starts this way: These days, it isn’t even safe to get a cup of coffee. Australians just learned this the hard way. In the U.S., watching a movie can apparently be too dangerous. At least, terrorist threats by North...
CPRC at Fox News: “Media Matters, the facts and me”
John Lott's newest piece starts this way: With just one telephone call this year, Erik Wemple of the Washington Post was able to convince Media Matters to let me respond to their attacks on me in the comments section of their website — after they ignored my emails,...
CPRC at Fox News: “Ferguson: Obama contines to undermine police departments around the country”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News explains the dangers that police face and starts this way: As a response to the police shooting of Michael Brown, President Obama proposes $263 million for police training and body cameras. But more police training wouldn’t have...
CPRC in the New York Daily News: “Dangerous distortions about cops shooting black men: An oft-cited figure is based on incomplete data and questionable math”
John Lott's newest piece at the New York Daily News starts this way: Exaggerations have poisoned discussions about relations between blacks and the police. “Black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times as likely as whites to be killed by a police officer,”...
CPRC in the Washington Post: “‘New’ research on gun laws and crime was flawed”
The CPRC has a letter to the editor today at the Washington Post that discusses a recent working paper that was discussed in the Post on November 14th. Dear Letters Editor: Christopher Ingraham’s “More Guns, More Crime” ignored research critical of a slightly updated,...
CPRC in Investor’s Business Daily: “America Should Make It Easier To Carry Guns”
John Lott's newest piece at Investor's Business Daily discusses what Americans can learn from Israel about stopping terrorism. The piece starts this way: Terrorism is forcing Israel to let civilians carry guns in even the most sensitive religious areas in the wake of...
CPRC at Fox News: “Hidden consequences of Washington State’s gun background check Initiative 594”
CPRC's John Lott has another piece at Fox News that starts this way: Let’s say a stalker is threatening a female friend of yours. She asks you if she can borrow your handgun. She is trained and has no criminal record. Should you loan her your gun? If you live in...
CPRC at Fox News: “‘Lone Wolf’ terror attacks: We’re sitting ducks and Americans with guns are last line of defense”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: The recent spate of “lone wolf” terrorist attacks both here and in Canada seem to have come out of nowhere. And it’s clear that they have left Americans and Canadians as sitting ducks. Simply by using the Internet,...