We have continued our reports on how very concentrated murders are in the United States. Our newest report is available here. Abstract The worst 1% of counties (the worst 31 counties) have 20% of the population and 41% of the murders. The worst 2% of counties (63...
Dr. John Lott has a new investigations piece at Real Clear Investigations. Also published at Zero Hedge, The Press (Brentwood, California), Times-Leader (Fairfield, MT), TippInsights, and USSA News. . Conventional wisdom holds that the United States is the most...
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Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed piece at The Federalist. It was also linked to by Real Clear Politics. Two days after the piece was posted, it was still the second most read piece at The Federalist (see the bottom of the post). . Is crime falling? Some conservatives,...
Dr. John Lott has a new investigations piece at Real Clear Investigations. Also published at Zero Hedge, The Press (Brentwood, California), Times-Leader (Fairfield, MT), TippInsights, and USSA News. . Conventional wisdom holds that the United States is the most...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed with Montana state representative Greg Overstreet in the Lee Newspapers in Montana including the Butte Montana Standard and the Ravalli Valley Ravalli Republic. Overstreet is a Montana state representative for House District 88. . You have...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. Also published in the Journal Courier (Illinois) and Conservative News and Views. . Imagine a woman driving across state lines alone at night, fearful that her car might break down and leave her vulnerable. Or...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. Also at YahooNews! and World Net Daily. . California’s new ban on Glock handguns takes effect on July 1. It is a new tactic for gun control advocates. Instead of trying to ban all handguns, a growing number of...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed with Canadian Professor Gary Mauser on the high violent crime rate in Canada that explains the research that we recently posted. . Canada faces a serious crime problem, but many Canadians believe crime is relatively low compared with the...
Dr. John Lott coauthored an op-ed in Australia with an Australian federal senator, Malcolm Roberts. It was also published at Australians for Science & Freedom. . Australia faces a serious crime problem. Many Australians believe our crime rate is low compared with...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations. It also appeared in the Epoch Times, Hot Air, Zero Hedge, Tennessee Star, Times-Leader (Fairfield, MT), The Daily News, Sign of the Times, and Ohio Press Network. . Alessandra Coote was walking on a trail...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "Gun Control Myths." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. For those interested, there is also the book....
Dr. John Lott gave a talk in Houston on April 17th, 2026 titled "The FBI Crime Data is a Politicized Mess." The audio here isn't perfect,, but hopefully between the audio and the PowerPoint the main message will get across. This audio missed the first 10 minutes of...
Dr. John Lott gave a talk at the Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan about errors in the FBI crime data. The PowerPoint slides that correspond with the audio is available here. Talk at Cooley Law SchoolDownload
Dr. John Lott appeared on KNRS’s Gun Radio Utah to discuss his new piece at Real Clear Investigations titled "Gun Safety: Violent Crime Drops as More Americans Pack Heat." (Saturday, June 27, 2026)
Dr. John Lott appeared on the national Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham to discuss two recent U.S. Supreme Court Second Amendment decisions, explaining the ruling against Hawaii's restrictive concealed carry law and the United States v. Hemani decision limiting...
Dr. John Lott talked to Vicki McKenna on her statewide radio show in Wisconsin about how safety in the United States compares with crime rates in countries such as Canada and Australia. They also discussed the concentration of murders in a relatively small number of...
Bradenton, Florida, January 1, 2026 (ABC7 WWSB) A 36-year-old man who died in a New Year’s Day shooting was killed in an act of self-defense after he confronted a couple outside their home, investigators said. The State Attorney’s Office reviewed the case and...
ChatGPT was asked to evaluate the top academic researchers in terms of their impact on the gun control debate on a 1 to 10 scale. ChatGPT also writes of John Lott's research: "Probably the single most influential empirical researcher in legislative debates over...
We have previously collected data on young people who successfully defended themselves or others with firearms, though it was for people either under age 18, teenagers, or under 21. Below are 24 cases involving children under the age of 17 who used a gun in...
