CPRC was founded by Dr. John R. Lott, Jr., an economist and a world recognized expert on guns and crime. Lott has held research or teaching positions at various academic institutions including the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and Rice University, and was the chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission during 1988-1989. He is currently a Fox News columnist. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.

Lott is a prolific author for both academic and popular publications. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and written eight books, including “More Guns, Less Crime,” “The Bias Against Guns,” and “Freedomnomics.” His most recent book is “Dumbing Down the Courts: How politics keeps the smartest judges off the bench.”

Nobel laureate Milton Friedman noted: “John Lott has few equals as a perceptive analyst of controversial public policy issues.” He has been one of the most productive and cited economists in the world (during 1969 to 2000 he ranked 26th worldwide in terms of quality adjusted total academic journal output, 4th in terms of total research output, and 86th in terms of citations). Among economics, business and law professors his research is currently the 25th most downloaded in the world. He is also a frequent writer of op-eds.

Michael L. Brown is the founder & president of AskDrBrown Ministries & of FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, North Carolina, and host of the talk radio show, the Line of Fire. He also hosts TV shows on GOD TV, METV, and NRBTV. He became a believer in Jesus in 1971 as a sixteen year-old, heroin-shooting, LSD-using Jewish rock drummer. Since then, he has preached throughout America and around the world.
He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University. Dr. Brown is the author of more than 35 books. Dr. Brown is a national and international speaker. He is widely considered to be the world’s foremost Messianic Jewish apologist.
He and his wife Nancy, who is also a Jewish believer in Jesus, have been married since 1976. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.

Alister E. McGrath (DPhil, DD, and DLitt, University of Oxford; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts) is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, and past President of the Oxford Center for Christian Apologetics. He is the author and editor of numerous works, including the award-winning books The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind, and C. S. Lewis – A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet. A former atheist, he is respectful yet critical of the new atheist movement and regularly engages in debate and dialogue with its leaders.

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