https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7vdPFzTBYw New Crime Prevention Research Center study has gotten coverage at Fox News, Fox Business, and on Fox News Radio. Here is a report from Fox News: Murders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concentrated in densely populated...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7unVdqstiJA Dr. John Lott testified before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security for a hearing titled “Examining Uvalde: The Search for Bipartisan Solutions to Gun Violence." They discussed different gun...
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Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. . After the three public shootings over the last two weekends in California, Democrats are again clamoring for even more gun control laws. To California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the solution is to ban more places where...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. . The per capita rate of mass shootings was much higher in California than in the rest of the U.S., despite the state having the strictest gun control laws in the country. . After Friday’s mass public shooting in Israel...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on Biden's latest gun control regulations. The piece also appeared in The Daily Signal; The Epoch Times; Zero Hedge; Rights, Justice, & Culture News; Headline USA; USSA News; and NRN. . The Biden...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Federalist on the involuntary manslaughter charges brought against Alec Baldwin. . News broke Thursday that prosecutors will charge actor Alec Baldwin with two counts of involuntary manslaughter over the shooting of “Rust”...
Dr. John Lott has another piece at The Federalist. . When an armed robber barged into Ranchito #4 Taqueria on Jan. 4, almost every customer froze with fear. But one good Samaritan, an unnamed 46-year-old man, quickly jumped into action to protect everyone...
Nikki Goeser has a new piece at Fox News. . January 2023 marks the nineteenth annual National Stalking Awareness Month. As a victim of a very serious and violent case of stalking, I wanted to share my own experience and bring awareness to what stalking is, how it can...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics on what is happening in Brazil. The piece also appeared in The Epoch Times. . Although one wouldn’t know it from the media coverage of gun control, the best social science has shown that law-abiding citizens...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. . Time is of the essence in mass public shootings. Civilians and police stop a lot of mass murders by carrying handguns, but sometimes you need a larger round than is available in a traditional handgun. It often simply isn’t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7unVdqstiJA Dr. John Lott testified before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security for a hearing titled “Examining Uvalde: The Search for Bipartisan Solutions to Gun Violence." They discussed different gun...
https://rumble.com/embed/v1ktcge/?pub=vzmga Dr. John Lott discussed the impact of media bias in terms of mass public shootings on the gun control debate. (Saturday, October 1, 2022)
Dr. John Lott and Dr. Ragy Girgis from Columbia University have a panel discussion on whether guns are the root cause of active killer events during a preemption and prevention-based webinar hosted by the Broward County Crime Commission....
Dr. John Lott talked to Bill Martinez on his national radio show about COVID deaths and hospitalizations being overcounted, and our latest research that murders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly concentrated in densely populated urban centers in a small set...
https://rumble.com/embed/v23ew4m/?pub=vzmga Dr. John Lott joins Steve Gruber to discuss the "overcounting" of COVID deaths and hospitalizations in the United States. Dr. Leana Wen admitted to the Washington Post: "The true toll of deaths and hospitalization, she...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on his national Armed American Radio show about his recent piece at Real Clear Politics on what is happening in Brazil, and our latest study on the concentration of murder in the United States. (Tuesday, January 17, 2023)
This isn't too surprising to anyone who have been following our work. . . . Violent crime in Asheville increased 31% per 100,000 people between 2016 and 2020 – nearly double the national average and 18-percentage points higher than North Carolina's 13% increase...
“Does Biden talk to police to see why they do what they do? Biden doesn’t understand policing,” John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said Monday. “If he wants to increase retention, don’t immediately release criminals &...
The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler has a long discussion about our research on the FBI's Active Shooting cases. One benefit from Kessler's piece is that he was actually able to get the Texas State University people to respond to two of the cases that we provided. Dr....