A widely cited February 2024 report by Politifact claimed: "No evidence of rising LGBTQ+ violent extremism or 'trans terrorism." A follow up report by Politifact in September 2025 examined both the FBI's definition of active shooting attacks and the notion of mass...
Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. Each time a public shooting draws national attention, particularly at places such as schools or churches, politicians and the media often respond by citing figures that claim the United States suffers...
A widely cited February 2024 report by Politifact claimed: “No evidence of rising LGBTQ+ violent extremism or ‘trans terrorism.” A follow report by Politifact in September 2025 examined both the FBI’s definition of active shooting attacks and the notion of mass shootings
Dr. John Lott addressed university students from the University of New South Wales, Australian National University, and other local colleges in New South Wales during his visit to Australia on February 8th, 2026.
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Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed on the upcoming push to pass the SAVE Act. Besides appearing originally at Real Clear Politics, it has also appeared at Zero Hedge. . “The bottom line is this: voter ID is not controversial in this country,” Harry Enten, the chief data...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics on the demands the Democrats have or they will shutdown the government again. . Another government shutdown looks increasingly likely by the end of the week. Democrats are demanding that major changes to Department...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the New York Post evaluating the media's claims about Trump's immigration enforcement during 2025. It is important to recognize that these numbers are strongly biased in favor of making the Obama administration immigration enforcement...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Wall Street Journal. . Blue-state gun laws are back before the Supreme Court. The justices barred states in 2022 from requiring concealed-handgun permit applicants to demonstrate a need for the license. Rather than comply with...
Dr. John Lott and CPRC senior fellow Kesten Green, who is also a researcher at the Adelaide University, College of Business and Law, have a new op-ed piece in the Spectator Australia. More information on this issue is provided in our post here. An additional reason...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at the New York Post. ChatGPT and Grok's evaluations of the accuracy of the article are attached at the end. A comparison is also provided for the Texas and American Community Survey (ACS) data that is often used by those who want to...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. The graphs for the changes in firearm and total homicides as well as for firearm and total suicides are provided at the end of this piece. . Democrats in the United States repeatedly praise Australia’s 1996 gun...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the Australian Spectator with Kesten Green, a researcher at the University of South Australia, about the massacre of Jews at the Bondi beach in Australia. The piece appeared in Australia on December 16th, 2025. . Australia already has...
General Michael Flynn organized a talk that I gave on voting rules in other countries and some academic research that I have done on voting. The PowerPoint below will help you follow along with the talk. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here. Vote Fraud Mail-in...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrBA2eIYdws Dr. John Lott addressed university students from the University of New South Wales, Australian National University, and other local colleges in New South Wales during his visit to Australia on February 8th, 2026. The...
Dr. John Lott will be giving a talk at Australia National University on Monday, February 9th from noon to 1 PM AEDT. Tickets to the talk are available here. . The FBI tracks active shooting cases-where individuals attempt to kill people in public places, excluding...
Dr. John Lott joined Paul Brennan on RCR Media to discuss Australia’s new gun buyback scheme introduced after the Bondi terror attack, arguing that the scheme will do little to prevent crime and that increased gun ownership, in fact, reduces crime. (Thursday, February...
https://youtu.be/M9fPk_gU_yQ Dr. John Lott talked to the Guns.com crew at SHOT Show 2026 about a wide range of gun policy issues, including gun-free zones potentially attracting attackers, lawful concealed carry reducing harm, permitting costs and delays discouraging...
https://youtu.be/-2cjMx3Ku_I?si=1HS-D5sCZksSQRyu Dr. John Lott appeared on The Tudor Dixon Podcast to discuss the real deportation records under Barack Obama and Donald Trump, exposing how media narratives often distort the facts. They explored how political decisions...
The Investigative Journalism Foundation has discovered that a 2021 data breach that exposed the names of 2.2 million gun owners. . A hack linked to the Canadian program overseeing firearm licences and registration was the largest data breach reported by a federal...
"You go 13 days without a homicide occurring, those homicides would have invariably been very heavily Black," John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "And so those lives, you have Blacks who didn't...
Because Democrats are reluctant to catch and punish criminals, it is no surprise that a new Rasmussen Reports survey finds Americans trust Republicans more on crime—though the 5-percentage-point gap remains modest. Even as murder rates fell last year to historic...
