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...
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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...
CPRC in the Philadelphia Inquirer: On why gun control is becoming even more impossible to impose
The op-ed piece in the Inquirer starts this way: The new year has brought yet more gun-control regulations. President Obama announced new executive orders on background checks. Connecticut citizens stood in long lines to register their guns, and, next door in New York...
Evaluating the Evidence in the Federal district court’s New York gun law decision
The CPRC presents an analysis of the federal district court's decision at National Review Online. The beginning of the analysis starts this way: New York’s new gun-control law, the so-called SAFE Act, largely survived its first federal-court challenge on this past...
Newest Fox News piece: “1 year after Newtown, support for stricter gun control has disappeared”
A New op-ed piece by John Lott starts this way: President Obama has pushed hard for gun control this year and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent millions of dollars on ads, but the administration's promise to coordinate "a November lobbying effort and plan...
Opinion piece at Fox News: “NFL hypocrisy — Bloomberg anti-gun ads ok but ad about ‘protection’ is banned?”
The piece by the Crime Prevention Research Center starts this way: New York City Mayor and gun control advocate Michael Bloomberg sure knows how to get his way. This week the NFL, after featuring anti-gun ads during the last two Super Bowls, it decided that an ad...
Newest Fox New piece: New gun rules for Neighborhood Watch volunteers in Sanford, Fla. about race, politics not saving lives
John Lott's newest piece at Fox News starts this way: When lives are on the line, what saves lives -- not politics – should guide policy. Gun control advocates used to warn about blood in the streets if we didn’t tighten gun laws, but as concealed handgun permits in...