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Dr. Lott talks with Steve Gruber about the lack of media coverage when a lawful citizen uses a gun to stop a mass public shooting. The CPRC regularly shares these justifiable self-defense cases on our website.

More information on this is available here and here.

(Tuesday, April 16, 2019)

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Dr. John Lott talks with host Jim Polito about school shootings and how to best prevent them. The answer is not armed guards or armed teachers.

(Tuesday, April 16, 2019)

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There’s an alarming trend taking place in many states across the nation. So-called Red Flag Laws are being passed that allow states to confiscate an individual’s firearms based solely upon rumors and anonymous reports. There’s no real provision for due process or notice. The police simply show up on one’s doorstep demanding their guns.…

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Dr. John Lott spoke with Steve Gruber about the national news media’s silly exaggerations of the U.S. border closure. We will not run out of avocados. We will just get them from other sources. The U.S. spends 50% more educating illegals than we spend on food from Mexico.

More information is available here.…

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Dr. John Lott was one of the people interviewed by the Denver Post about the 20th Anniversary of Columbine massacre. Here is the discussion that they had with him.

John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and author of “More Guns, Less Crime,” said mass killers often choose a soft target or “gun-free zone” — such as schools — to carry out their attacks.

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Nikki Goeser talks with host Steve Gruber about Red Flag Laws. Nikki Goeser is a survivor of a violent crime in a Gun-Free Zone, where her husband was murdered in front of her by her stalker. Even after going through something as horrific as this, Nikki understands the importance of due process and how Red Flag Laws can violate that due process.…

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The White House said the plan was intended to alleviate a detention space shortage, but it also was seen as a retaliatory message to sanctuary defenders like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Her San Francisco district was one of the targets.

With Canada government considering a ban on handguns, the Toronto Police Association has spoken out against the ban.

“There’s no way in my world or any world I know that this would have an impact on somebody who’s going to go out and buy an illegal gun and use it to kill another person or shoot another person,” Mike McCormack, the president of the Toronto Police Association, said Friday.

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Some 125 of the 410 officers have been outfitted with body cameras. But the federal grant that pays for them is due to expire, and the department isn’t sure it can afford to continue.

The police officer, Aaron Petitt, and the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association sued in July, saying the city violated the officer’s First Amendment and due process rights.