David Hemenway wrote an op-ed that was originally published in the LA Times and then picked up in many other newspapers that was full of half truths and missing facts…
LA Times Runs Flawed Anti-Gun Op-Ed, then Refuses to Publish Fact Filled Rebuttal
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Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Research Director Explains Why He Won’t Debate Gun Control
As far as I can tell he said Bloomberg’s people would only debate people that they agree with…
CPRC Testified Before NV Assembly Judiciary Committee On Eliminating Gun-Free Zones
Comments from John R Lott; “My testimony before the Nevada Assembly last week on gun-free zones was also very well received and had a powerful impact on the entire hearing”…
DR. John Lott & John Stossel Debunk ‘Everytown for Gun Control’ ~ Video
This is an excellent video where John Lott appears on John Stossel’s show, and debunk’s claims made by Michael Bloomberg’s organizations…
Riveting John Lott on Public TV about Gun Free Zones ~ Video
This video gives extraordinary insight into the dynamics of mass shootings. Dr. Lott explains what the effect gun free zones have.
John Lott To Testify On Wyoming’s HB-114 Repeal Gun Free Zones
Good news about Wednesday’s Senate hearing on HB-114…John Lott Jr. will be in Cheyenne to testify at the Senate Committee…
New Report from CPRC Shows 11.1 Million Americans Hold Concealed Carry Permits
A recently released a report on Concealed Carry Permit Holders Across the United States, reveals that 11.1 million Americans hold concealed carry permits UP from an estimated 4.6 million in 2007…
Can the FBI Be That Dumb, New Report on Public Shootings Uses Biased Data & Bad Math
The Obama administration’s FBI report obtained its result by manipulating the data: including non-mass shootings, missing mass shooting cases, & selectively picking the period of time examined…
CRPC At Fox News: ‘Expert: Blacks Trust Police More Than Whites Do’
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….
New Pew Survey Shows That Support For Gun Ownership Increasing
New Pew Survey shows that support for gun ownership increasing, mirrors other surveys showing that people believe guns make them safer…
Low Life Media Matters, The Facts And John Lott
With just one telephone call this year, Erik Wemple of the Washington Post was able to convince Media Matters to let be, responses to their attacks, after ignoring John Lott for seven years…
Media Matters Continues Smear Campaign On Economist John Lott
Media Matters has long conned the public that it is fighting misinformation on the internet, but lately the group seems to be creating its own mean spirited misinformation…
Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Stopped Robberies
One customer was killed here, but without the permit holder in this case, multiple customers might have been killed…
John Lott Discussing The Increase In Gun Sales During November 2014
One can only wish that the 32-year-old Bosnian who was clubbed to death by a group of hammer-wielding teenagers in St. Louis had a gun for self-defense…
Ferguson: Obama Contines To Undermine Police Departments Around The Country
President Obama has continually undermined police departments around the country, and his demand for more training fits that pattern…
Bloomberg’s Everytown Gun Control Claims To Talk Guns At Thanksgiving Dinner
Lott, through his Crime Prevention Research Center, has long taken on the Bloomberg group’s statistics calling them “typical misinformation”…
Problems With The Washington & Huffington Post’s ‘More Guns, More Crime’ Claims
On Friday, Christopher Ingraham in the Washington Post felt this “new research debunks a central thesis of the gun rights movement”, he is wrong on many counts…
Researchers Assail Everytown and FBI Shootings Reports
Everytown greatly exaggerated the number of mass shootings, failed to adequately research the crimes in its report & failed to correctly distinguish public shootings from those of other types…
Join the 2014 National Convention for Students for Concealed Carry
Students for Concealed Carry along with Crime Prevention Research Center will be hosting their annual Education and Training event, the 2014 National Convention for Students for Concealed Carry…
New Report Shows 11.1 million Americans Hold Concealed Carry Permits
The results showed that there are total of 11,113,013 Americans who currently hold concealed carry permits representing nearly 5 percent of the total population…
Crime Prevention Research Center Announces Academic Advisory Board Members
The Crime Prevention Research Center is very excited to announce the Crime Prevention Research Center’s Academic Advisory Board…
Grass Roots North Carolina – Twenty Years Of Victory!
In 1994, when Grass Roots North Carolina held its first rally at the state capitol, we never imagined we would be around for twenty years, much less that in two decades we would accomplish so much…
Save Lives & Deter Criminals – Help John Lott Kick Start the Crime Prevention Research Center
John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center has begun a crowd funding initiative to combat the onslaught of bogus gun research funded by Bloomberg and others…
A Note On Mass Victim Knife Attacks
A note on mass victim knife attacks: a single, very small 16 year old was able to wound at least 24 people with a knife in just 5 minutes…
California at Berkeley Guns, Crime, and Freedom Debate ~ Video
Video of University of California at Berkeley Debate on Gun Control — if you have time, this is a good debate (2-to-1 panelists, so the other side got twice as much time, but it still worked out well)…
No More Sitting Ducks – Arm Our Soldiers On Their Bases
How do you protect soft (civilian) targets? That’s really the challenge. You can’t have armed police forces everywhere….
Crime Prevention Research Center In The News This Week
This week the Crime Prevention Research Center has done a number of local radio stations across the country in the past week…
Mental Health – The Next Gun Rights Assault
Rights advocates need to be on the lookout for an insidious new tactic being launched by Mike Bloomberg and his mercenary minions. Their latest line of attack is subverting mental health…
2,082 Reasons Why Guns Are Lifesavers Every Day
Gun control proponents tell us we need more gun control and we need it now. To make this point, they seize on one illegal gun use while ignoring thousands of defensive gun uses each year…
National Gun-Rights Attack To Be Met Head On By Activists
Anti rights groups, backed by Obama and Bloomberg, will hold events staged to use the death of innocent victims in Newtown, Conn., to call for infringements on the Second Amendment…