Many graphs using the data are shown at the end of the post. When another shooting happens at a place such as a school or a mall, politicians and the media are apt to claim that many hundreds of mass shootings occur each year. “Over the last year since Uvalde, our...
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New Survey on the Rate that People Carry Concealed Handguns: Comparing Constitutional Carry States, Right-to-Carry States, and the Seven May-Issue States before Bruen
The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election voters on December 17th, 2024, regarding whether they carry concealed handguns. Not surprisingly, people in constitutional-carry states carry concealed handguns more frequently than people in...
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At Real Clear Politics: Government Price Controls Won’t Help Residents in California Recover From LA Fires
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed on the move by the California Attorney General to bring price gouging charges against companies in California. With prices of hotels and short-term rentals soaring in Southern California due to the recent devastating wildfires,...
At Townhall: Right to the End, Biden Makes False Claims About Crime
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Townhall. In his final farewell speech to the nation, President Biden made a series of false claims about how great of a job he has done on the economy, foreign policy, and crime. Once again, he declared that his policies were...
In Newspapers Across Montana: The death penalty saves lives and tax dollars
This piece by Dr. John Lott appeared in the Billings Gazette, Helena Independent Record, Missoulian, Montana Standard, and the Ravioli Republic, all in Montana. President Joe Biden has recently commuted death sentences to life sentences for 37 of the 40 men who are on...
At The Federalist: Contrary To Media Claims, Deporting Illegal Alien Criminals Will Save Taxpayers More Than It Costs
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist with a deep dive into the numbers. . In testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, American Immigration Council (AIC) Senior Fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick remarked last week that mass deportations would...
At Townhall: Biden Commuting the Sentences of 37 Federal Death Row Inmates Ignores the Will of Most Americans
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Townhall. President Biden today commuted the death sentences to life sentences for 37 of the 40 men who are on the federal government’s death row. Those spared included child killers and mass murderers. Ironically, 36 of...
In Newspapers Across Montana: Gun-free zones attract attackers
This piece appeared in the Billings Gazette and also in Helena Independent Record, Missoulian, Montana Standard, and the Ravioli Republic, all are in Montana, . . Around midmorning on Thursday, parents across Montana started receiving texts from their children that...
At the Federalist: The FBI Is Lying About Violent Crime To Help Democrats Win This Election
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at The Federalist. The FBI has a big transparency problem. For a year, the media has been using the FBI’s estimates of reported crime to claim that crime has been falling. When the FBI released its numbers for 2023 in September...
At Real Clear Politics: First, Second, Fourth Amendments Endangered by Kamala Harris
Dr, John Lott has a new op-ed piece at Real Clear Politics. It also appeared at Zero Hedge, All Sides, and Patriot Post. Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats claim they are the party of freedom. In Harris’ interview on Club Shay Shay on Monday,...
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At Tangle: Debate Over Whether Crime is Getting Better or Worse
Tangle conducted individual interviews with the left wing Brennan Center's Ames Grawert, The Manhattan Institutes' Robert VerBruggen, and CPRC's Dr. John Lott on the issue of whether crime is increasing. It would have been much more useful if everyone was in the same...
Dr. Lott participates in Press Briefing with Hundreds of Reporters on the Border Crisis and Crime
Dr. John Lott's Portion of Press Briefing, two discussions put together Complete Press Briefing Democrats what to claim that crime is falling despite the millions of illegal aliens coming into the country, so they conclude that illegal aliens couldn't be causing...
Dr. Lott participates in Press Briefing with Over 30 Reporters on How Crime is Increasing and Law Enforcement is Collapsing
Dr. John Lott's portion of Press Briefing Complete Press Briefing On September 6th, Dr. John Lott participated in a press briefing. Over 30 reporters participated in the briefing, with news stories appearing in the New York Post and Breitbart. The research upon which...
Media Appearances
On the Lars Larson Show: To Discuss Trump’s Mass Deportations
Dr. John Lott talked to Lars Larson on his national radio shows about Dr. Lott's new piece at The Federalist titled "Contrary To Media Claims, Deporting Illegal Alien Criminals Will Save Taxpayers More Than It Costs." (Thursday, January 2, 2025, from 4:30 to 4:40...
On Stinchfield Tonight on Real America’s Voice: Discussing Mass Deportations to Save Billions
https://youtu.be/0DwfzFubWM4 Dr. John Lott Jr. appeared on Stinchfield Tonight on Real America’s Voice to discuss his new piece at The Federalist titled "Contrary To Media Claims, Deporting Illegal Alien Criminals Will Save Taxpayers More Than It Costs."...
On NewsMax’s Wake Up America Weekend: To Discuss Two Major Attacks on New Year’s Day
https://youtu.be/whQCoPZIhHY Dr. John Lott appeared on NewsMax’s Wake Up America Weekend to discuss the truck attack in New Orleans and the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day. (NewsMax’s Wake Up America...
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A long history of TV characters saying they “dislike” or “hate” guns, An Episode from NBC’s Chuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxyqgMLQgvk The indoctrination against guns on television shows has been going on for a long time. We have collected many recent episodes on television where characters say that they dislike guns available here. Here is an episode from...
The Center for Immigration Studies estimates there were 225,000 to 250,000 Births to Illegal Immigrants in 2023
The Center for Immigration Studies released a 2018 report finding that in 2014, one in five births (791,000) in the U.S. was to an immigrant mother (legal or illegal). They thought that legal immigrants accounted for 12.4% (494,000) of all births and illegal...
NJ Assemblyman Greg Myhre on More Guns, Less Violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsD7o4SHW38 NJ Assemblyman Greg Myhre (R) has a video on how violent crime fell after the Supreme Court's Bruen decision, dramatically increasing the number of concealed handgun permits in the state. As has been seen in all the other...