Charleston Gazette-Mail (West Virginia), Saturday, February 11, 2017
…. . . According to a 2015 study by the Crime Prevention Research Center, the number of women who applied for concealed-carry permits rose 270 percent between 2007 and 2015.
Men’s applications increased 156 percent over the same period.
Jefferson believes the number of gun-carrying women will only increase.
On Wednesday the Wyoming Senate Judiciary Committee passed two bills: House Bill 136, which would allow concealed carry on college campuses, including athletic events, without prior approval from the college, and House Bill 137, which would allow concealed carry at any meeting of a government body on public property, including the state Legislature. …
Dr. John Lott spoke to the Défense Active des Amateurs d’ Armes on January 21, 2017. In the audience were people from Belgium, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and other countries. The talk covered a comparison of mass public shootings and murder rates across countries. The talk was simultaneously translated into Dutch and French.…
Walter Williams’ latest national column on policing:
…To solve this problem, they want police departments to hire more black police officers. It turns out that the U.S. Justice Department has found that black police officers in San Francisco and Philadelphia are likelier than whites to shoot and use force against black suspects.
Topeka, Kansas, WIBW Channel 13 TV, February 11, 2017:
…Topeka Police responded to reports of a stabbing at the Walmart on SE California in Topeka just after 4 p.m. Saturday.
TPD says two men were involved in an altercation, when a third party conceal carry holder intervened and stopped the assault.
Dr. John Lott talked to Kerry Lutz about Obama’s regulations that defined Social Security recipients as mentally incompetent if they needed help with their finances. They also discussed California’s gun control laws that are in the process of banning handguns and Bloomberg’s push for more gun regulations.
(Tuesday, February 14, 2017)
Here is the interview that Dr. John Lott had with the Polish publication Strazat Pl Pro Libertate.
Pod koniec stycznia, na zaproszenie ROMB oraz posła Bartosza Józwiaka z klubu Kukiz’15, odczyt na temat wpływu dostępu do broni palnej wygłosił w naszym parlamencie John Richard Lott, Jr – amerykański działacz pro-broniowy i komentator polityczny, autor wielu książek, m.in.
With the debate over gun-free zones heating up in the Wyoming legislature, Dr. John Lott has a piece in the Capitol city’s newspaper, the Tribune Eagle. Lott was responding to a piece in the paper by Kerry Drake that had attacked Lott and the research from the CPRC.
Strangely, after the piece went up, Dr.…
Dr. John Lott talked to Steve Gruber on the Michigan Talk Network about what we can learn from Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Nomination to the Supreme Court.
(Tuesday, February 7, 2017 from 6:45 to 6:52 AM)
Presumably, it was just a matter of time. Places such as the NFL have banned off-duty police from carrying guns at their games, even though there has never been a safety problem with an off-duty officer carrying at a game and they have been doing it as long as there has been an NFL. …
