August 12, 2023 With the U.S. Supreme Court about to hear oral arguments on Connecticut's and Cook County, Illinois assault weapon bans, it is interesting to see what a small share of murders are committed with any type of rifle and how even that share has fallen over...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations on the record drop in violent crime during 2025 and the historic low murder rate. Also posted at Zero Hedge and linked to at HotAir. . The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to...
“On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted every death sentence in the state... The action covers all 548 people on California’s death row.”
My piece evaluates Newsom’s arguments against the death penalty.
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With the Supreme Court about to hear oral arguments on Assault Weapon Bans, specifically AR-15s, how has the share of murders with rifles changed over time?
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https://crimeresearch.org/2026/11/with-all-the-concern-about-assault-weapons-how-has-the-share-of-murders-with-rifles-changed-over-time/
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Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. . On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted every death sentence in the state, following Joe Biden’s lead just before leaving office. The action covers all 548 people on California’s death...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist that focuses on media bias. Our tracking of the lack of media coverage by major outlets on this historic drop in violent and property crime and murders is available here. The piece was linked to on the front page of Real...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations on the record drop in violent crime during 2025 and the historic low murder rate. Also posted at Zero Hedge and linked to at HotAir. . The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at National Review Online. . Two days after last week’s attack on an Oregon elementary school, the Associated Press opened a news story with a familiar claim: “Few mass shootings in the U.S. end like the deadly attack on an...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at the Washington Times. . Censorship was a serious problem during the Biden administration. . President Trump has reversed some of the changes that President Biden made to information published by the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . Without the threat of the death penalty, prosecutors would lose a powerful incentive for defendants to negotiate. . The U.S. military last executed a convicted criminal on April 13, 1961. But if anyone deserves the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. See also the link at Real Clear Politics. . The federal government consistently downplays evidence that armed, law-abiding citizens can stop public mass-casualty attacks. . Those who manipulate crime data can shape the...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. . Gun control advocates have condemned the Justice Department’s decision to stop criminally enforcing the nearly 60-year-old 1968 federal ban on licensed dealers selling handguns to law-abiding 18-, 19-, and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8uoAHk8G0&t=222s A copy of the PowerPoint is available here. GRPC 2026 Sept 27 TalkDownload
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVlFRlwy4G4 Dr. John Lott's talk on July 10th, 2026 on Restoring Self Defense. A copy of the PowerPoint is available here.
Here is the audio and PowerPoint for Dr. John Lott's recent talk in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 13th. This talk has Lott speaking in English followed by a translator speaking in Spanish. Argentina-Talk-2025-without-videoDownload The video in the presentation is...
Dr. John Lott talked to Leland Conway on Denver’s KHOW about the importance of defensive gun use in preventing mass shootings and the media’s tendency to downplay these incidents. They also discussed the importance of per capita crime statistics, including the finding...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about the unprecedented decline in felony violent crime and property crime reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics on October 26, 2026, and the lack of coverage by most major media...
Dr. John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, appeared on the Talk Back program to discuss the unprecedented drop in felony violent crime and property crime reported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics on October 26, 2026. See also Dr. Lott's new...
There were 45 shooting attacks at K-12 schools where there were school resource officers or other types of law enforcement officers. Thirty-nine of the cases involve casualties other than the attacker. In those 39 cases, there was on average 1.3 murders and 2.9...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J4EfkyaPGzw On November 5th, 2026, an armed employee, who was a Marine veteran, stopped an attacker who obviously planned to murder many people as he still had 90 rounds of ammunition on him. Fortunately, Citibank allowed employees with...
August 12, 2023 With the U.S. Supreme Court about to hear oral arguments on Connecticut's and Cook County, Illinois assault weapon bans, it is interesting to see what a small share of murders are committed with any type of rifle and how even that share has fallen over...
