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...
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Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on Gun Control
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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At Real Clear Politics: Gun Control Laws Backfiring in California
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...
At The Federalist: False Statistics Fly As California Democrats Push For Gun Control Laws That Failed Already
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...
At Real Clear Politics: New Gun Regulation Handicaps the Disabled
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...
At The Federalist: Alec Baldwin Lost Any Credible Defense When He Violated The First Rule Of Gun Safety
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”...
At The Federalist: How Hollywood Uses TV Shows To Lie About Good Guys With Guns
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...
At Fox News: My stalker murdered my husband. Here’s how you can protect yourself
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...
At Real Clear Politics: A Response to the Media on Brazil
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...
At Townhall: Will Phobias About AR-15s Keep Schools From Adopting This Innovative Product?
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...
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Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on Gun Control
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...
Talk at 2022 Gun Rights Policy Conference: What Statistics Don’t Tell You
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)
Debate at the Broward County Crime Commission: Active Shooter Killers – Are the Solutions Really that Complex?
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....
Media Appearances
On the Bill Martinez Radio Show: To Discuss COVID Overcounts and Murder Concentration in the US
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...
On America’s Voice Live: Discussing COVID Conspiracies
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...
On Armed American Radio: Discussing Brazil’s gun control and America’s murder concentration
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)
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Number of police in the Asheville Police Department is down 42% since May 2020, 200% surge in break-ins amid a violent crime spike
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...
CPRC in the News: New York Post, Just the News, Axios, Orange County Register, El Tiempo Latino, and much more
“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 &...
Our Research on Errors in the FBI’s Active Shooting Reports given Extensive Coverage in the Washington Post
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....