The Crime Prevention Research Center hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey Red Flag Laws for 1,000 general election voters from July 21st to 24th, 2022. The survey asked people whether they supported Red Flag Laws, then asked whether they still supported it when...
The paper is available to be downloaded here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4205992. Our popular write-up on this is available here. Abstract We had a simple goal: match the number of voters who voted with the number of ballots cast. After elections, concerns are raised...
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Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed with Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY). . Democrats aim to create a comprehensive national list of gun owners. In a major victory for gun control advocates, American Express, Mastercard, and Visa agreed to help the government track firearm...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics about comments made last week by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams. It was also published in other places such as the Journal Courier (Jacksonville, Illinois). . In...
Dr. John Lott has a piece with Steve Smith from the America First Policy Institute about our research on counties and states inability to measure the gap between the number of voters with the number of ballots cast in elections. The research on which it is based is...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Newsweek on Biden's crime speech this week. More information on his false statements is available here: More of Biden’s false claims during his crime speech in Pennsylvania. . On Tuesday, President Joe Biden traveled to Wilkes...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece also appeared in the Daily Signal, Zerohedge, and The Center Square. . A lot of people are moving out of California. Over the last two years, California has lost about 300,000 people. Major companies,...
Dr. John Lott has a piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the false claims made by Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman. . Last week, Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Democrat John Fetterman said that requiring a voter I.D. is “insidious and...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. . We put five children through college (one is still attending). We saved up. We never took out any loans, as we didn’t want our kids burdened with debt. Our kids went to William & Mary, Mary Washington, Dartmouth, Johns...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist on New York defying the Supreme Court decision in Bruen. The Supreme Court has ruled against arbitrary and unfair permitting processes, but New York officials seem intent on dragging their heels. .New York’s new...
During August and September, Dr. John Lott and Nikki Goeser gave many talks in South America and the US. A video of Lott's talk in Peru is available here. Lott's talk in Brazil being advertised John Lott taking a picture at a Press Conference in Brazil Nikki Goeser's...
The CPRC's Nikki Goeser spoke at Pennsylvania's annual gun rights rally. Nikki Goeser, the executive director of the Crime Prevention Research Center, was one of the rally’s main speakers. Goeser is the author of “Stalked And Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTUM6Zu0Wfc Dr. John Lott and Nikki Goeser discussed gun control in August in Brazil and Peru. This is a video of their talks in Lima, Peru. Lott's and Goeser's talks are shown in English with Spanish subtitles.
Dr. John Lott talked with host Steve Noxon about how sloppy record keeping by election officials stoke the ongoing questions regarding the integrity of the elections. The discussion is related to Dr. Lott's recent paper with Steve Smith from the America First Policy...
Dr. John Lott talked to Mark Walters on his national Armed American Radio show about Dr. Lott’s recent pieces at Newsweek with Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) ("Credit Card Companies Join Democrats' Gun Control Scheme") and The Federalist with Steve Smith from the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jeIJMVY0qc Dr. John Lott talked to Colion Noir's podcast about how often people really use guns in self-defense. They discussed Lott's recent piece at Real Clear Investigations: How the FBI Undercounts Armed Citizen Responders to Mass...
Who thinks the US is most likely headed in the right direction? A new Rasmussen Reports Survey of Likely Voters finds it is high-income liberal Democrats who went to graduate school. They are most isolated from everyday realities such as crime and inflation. These are...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCB2lRfuxh4 Television show bias against guns is never-ending. Except for a couple episodes on Paramount’s Yellowstone, you won’t see an entertainment television show with a civilian successfully using a gun defensively. Instead,...
Salt Lake City, UT, July 2, 2022 (KUTV) Prosecutors have declined to file charges against a man who shot two other men earlier this month at a Salt Lake City TRAX platform.The shooting happened on July 2 at the 900 South 200 West TRAX station…“The evidence clearly...