John Lott's newest piece was the featured commentary in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review's Sunday opinion section and it starts this way: Can mass shootings be stopped or prevented? The Obama administration's political views prevent it from even considering certain...
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CPRC at Fox News: “Surgeon General nomination forces Senate Democrats to hide gun views”
Our newest piece by John Lott at Fox News starts this way: When will some Democrats who describe themselves as “pro-gun” realize that they aren't fooling anyone? Here's their latest deception. President Obama’s nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to be surgeon general is...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily: “The Police Should Carry Guns Off The Job To Protect Us”
The piece by John Lott at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: Unbelievably, some won't even let police officers work for free. They object to them carrying guns when off-duty. Gun-control advocates are so extremely fearful of guns, the NFL has banned off-duty...
CPRC at Investor’s Business Daily on the 20th Anniversary of the Brady Law: “Brady Law Has Done Little To Keep Guns Out Of Criminals’ Hands”
The Brady Law stops law-abiding Americans, not criminals, from getting guns. John Lott's piece at Investor's Business Daily starts this way: Last Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the so-called Brady Law, a federal gun control in honor of James Brady, Ronald...
CPRC at Fox News: “Don’t believe mainstream media mistruths about firearms research”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: If we are to believe the mainstream media, the powerful NRA has used its political muscle to keep people ignorant of how guns impact our safety. They are supposedly to blame for the elimination of firearms...
CPRC on Piers Morgan’s cancelation at CNN
CPRC's president, John Lott, has been on Piers Morgan's CNN show many times. With Morgan's announcement yesterday that his show was being cancelled, John Lott wrote a piece for the National Review Online. The piece starts this way: Sunday’s announcement that Piers...
CPRC at Fox News: Media cherry picks Missouri gun data to make misleading case for more control
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News discusses the forthcoming study in the Journal of Urban Health that has been getting a lot of media attention. His piece starts this way: With headlines claiming “Study Shows Gun Control Works,” media outlets such as CBS, MSNBC,...
CPRC at Fox News: “Bloomberg’s latest stats on school gun violence ignore reality”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: Are schools and colleges dangerous places, with lots of gun violence? Some groups paint a picture of these places being particularly unsafe. Supposedly both murders and firearm suicides are very common at...
CPRC at Fox News: “It may soon be easy to carry a permitted concealed handgun in California”
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: California may soon join 42 other states in letting people carry concealed handguns once they meet certain objective criteria. Thursday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state couldn’t ban both...
CPRC at Fox News: “ABC News reports on guns mislead Americans”
John Lott's piece at Fox News started this way: Gun control advocates not only push new fees and taxes on guns to reduce ownership, but they also employ another tactic: scaring people into not owning guns. Last week, on January 31, ABC News saturated its news programs...
CPRC at National Review Online: “The Cruelty of Gun-Free Zones”
The piece at National Review starts off this way: Tuesday night, President Obama vowed to “help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters and our shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.” But before he continues pushing his typical...
CPRC at Fox News: Civitas Media’s concealed weapon databases of permit holders won’t make US safer
The newest piece at Fox News starts this way: January is National Stalking Awareness Month and this week's announcement by Civitas Media, that it was constructing a national database of concealed handgun permit holders, couldn’t have come at a worse time. This is...